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American Journal of Business and Society, Vol.1, No.2, Jul. 2016, Pub. Date: Jun. 17, 2016
Socio-economic Status of Slum Dwellers: An Empirical Study on the Capital City of Bangladesh
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Authors
[01] M. Kamruzzaman, School of Victimology and Restorative Justice, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh; School of Criminology and Police Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
[02] M. A. Hakim, School of Food Technology and Nutritional Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh.
Abstract
Slums living people are very poor and their socio-economic condition does not allow them to live a healthy life. They do not have access to sanitation and they cannot get safe water supply. They have to live in adverse conditions due to poor social, economic and health facilities. The main purpose of this study was to find out socio-economic condition of slum dwellers of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh, a South Asian country. Data was collected from 315 respondents by survey research method where respondents were selected by statistical simple random sampling method. There were found that people living in slums had sad tales in living conditions. Owing to bad hygienic condition and health statuses of households were also not in satisfactory level. The morbidity rate was very high among the studied population and it was concluded that people living with low socio-economic conditions were to face different health and hygiene problems.
Keywords
Socio-economic Status, Slum Dwellers, Dhaka City, Bangladesh
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