Ministry of Planning

Statistics and Informatics Division (SID)

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
Comparative Matrix of
Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)
(2005 – 2016)
Selected Indicators
Indicators HIES 2005 HIES 2010 HIES 2016
1 Total Primary Sampling Units 504 612 2304
(PSU’s)
2 Total sample households 10080 12240 46076
3 Average household size 4.85 4.50 4.06
4 Housing structure (head of Household) roof materials (percent)
Brick/Cement 7.69 10.37 11.06
CIS/Wood 82.25 81.52 84.29
Straw/Hay/Bamboo/Others 10.06 8.11 4.65
5 Housing structure (head of household) wall materials (percent)
Brick/Cement 19.63 25.12 30.50
CIS/Brick/Wood 35.53 38.46 49.33
Mud/Unburnt Brick 18.05 16.72 11.02
Hay/Bamboo/Leaf/Others 26.79 19.71 9.15
6 Source of drinking water (percent)
Supply 7.63 10.62 12.01
Tube well 89.04 85.37 85.18
Others 3.33 4.01 2.81
7 Electricity (percent) 44.23 55.26 75.92
8 Toilet facilities (percent)
Sanitary/Pucca 51.74 51.05 61.37
Katcha 36.95 44.54 35.67
Open space/Others 11.31 4.40 2.96
9 School enrolment aged 6-10 years
Upper Poverty Line (CBN)
Poor 72.35 78.33 90.2
Noon-poor 84.40 89.00 95.0
10 Literacy rate (7 years & over)
Both sex 51.9 57.9 65.6
Male 55.8 61.1 67.8
Female 48.1 54.8 63.4
11 Income (Taka per month)
Income per household 7203 11479 15988
Income per capita 1485 2553 3940
12 Expenditure (Taka per month)
Expenditure per household 6134 11200 15715
Consumption expenditure per H/H 5964 11003 15420
13 Food intake (Gram per capita per day)
Rice 439.64 416.01 367.19
Wheat 12.08 26.09 19.83
Pulses 14.20 14.30 15.60
Vegetables 157.0 166.08 167.30
Fish 42.1 49.50 62.58
Meat 15.6 19.07 25.42
Egg 5.2 7.25 13.58
Milk & Milk product 32.4 33.72 27.31
Fruit 32.5 44.70 35.78
 Protein 62.52 66.26 63.80
Indicators HIES 2005 HIES 2010 HIES 2016
14 Calorie (K. cal/capita/day) 2238.5 2318.3 2210.4
15 Share of expenditure (%)
Food 53.8 54.8 47.7
Non-food 46.2 45.2 52.3
16 Main occupation (%)
Agriculture 47.5 36.1 37.8
Non-agriculture 52.5 63.9 62.2
17 Incidence of poverty CBN method
Lower Poverty Line
Head count (%) 25.1 17.6 12.9
Poverty gap 4.6 3.1 2.3
Squared poverty gap 1.3 0.8 0.6
Upper Poverty Line
Head count (%) 40.0 31.5 24.3
Poverty gap 9.0 6.5 5.0
Squared poverty gap 2.9 2.0 1.5
18 Incidence of poverty and literacy of head of household CBN method
Lower Poverty Line
Literate 12.3 9.2 7.1
Illiterate 36.3 25.1 15.8
Upper Poverty Line
Literate 23.0 19.0 15.1
Illiterate 54.7 42.8 29.5
19 Poverty incidence and sex of head of household CBN method
Lower Poverty Line
Male 25.4 17.9 13.2
Female 21.9 14.6 10.4
Upper Poverty Line
Male 40.8 32.1 24.8
Female 29.5 26.6 19.9
20 Number of beneficiaries in Social 13.1 24.6 28.7
Safety Net Programmes
(percentage)
21 Number of disabled persons - 9.07 6.94
(percentage)
22 Migration per household - 12.3 11.2
(percentage)