Report Date: June 2014

This preliminary report includes survey findings on a range of handwashing indicators from a nationally representative population along with water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) indicators to provide baseline information for use in advocacy, planning, and program monitoring. Field workers conducted face‐to‐face surveys, spot checks, and structured observations to determine handwashing practices and facilities and collected data on other WASH practices, facilities, and knowledge. The overall objective of this national hygiene survey was to establish a nationally representative baseline status of hygiene situations related to knowledge, facilities, and practices in the area of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). The data to be generated from the survey would further help the WASH sector in Bangladesh to use as a document for advocacy, planning, and implementation initiatives.