The study utilizes data from the 1993/94 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS). The 1993/94 BDHS employed a nationally representative two- stage sample. The sample was selected from the frame of the Integrated Multipurpose Master Sample (IMPS), newly created by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics on the basis of 1991 census data. Eligible for interviews under the survey were ever-married females aged 10-14. A sample of 9,681 households was selected; 9,640 eligible wozncn in these households there successfully inlterviewed. Field Work began on 17 November 1993 and ended on 12 March 1994. The main source of fertility data collected in the 1993/94 BDHS was tile birth history by each of the ever-married women aged 10-49. Each woman was asked to provide information on the date of birth of each child, sex of the child, survival status and age at death if any of the children had died