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2. Hasan D.M. ‘A Study of Building Process of Houses in Rural Bangladesh: The Case of Floodplain Region’ (Master of Engineering in Architecture thesis, Leuven, Belgium: Katholieke University, 1987); N. Islamet al., ‘A survey of housing in a Bangladesh village’, Paper presented at the Regional Workshop on Transfer of Rural Housing Technology (Dhaka: Centre for Urban Studies, 1981).
3. Household is defined here as a group sharing a common kitchen and eating arrangements.
4. Hasan, 1987.