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Table 1 Demographic, environmental and socioeconomic variables for each census tract

From: Modelling typhoid risk in Dhaka Metropolitan Area of Bangladesh: the role of socio-economic and environmental factors

Variable

Derivation

Total population

From 2001 census records

Population density

Total population / census tract area

Household size (>5)

Number of households in tract with >5 occupants

NVDI

Mean of NDVI from five mosaiced image pairs

Temperature

Mean of LST from five mosaiced image pairs

Percent urban

From Land use/cover classification of 2000 image

Housing density

From RAJUK Detailed Area Plan and tract areas

Per capita land

From 2001 census records and tract area

Total literacy rate

As a percentage from 2001 census records

Percent unemployed

As a percentage from 2001 census records

Percent slum area

From digitised GeoEye image and tract area

Median housing value

Weighted analysis of residential data and census tracts

Households without safe water

As a percentage from 2001 census records

Households that own agricultural land

As a percentage from 2001 census records

Households without sanitation

As a percentage from 2001 census records