The urban health survey was conducted at 3 selected slums in Dhaka City covering 800 households in which all heads of household and all women of reproductive age were interviewed. The survey also undertook 60 in-depth interviews each on 8 designated themes (a total of 480 interviews).

The following tasks were conducted for the survey:

• selecting of the survey areas
• translating into Bangla and editing of survey questionnaires
• recruiting and placing of field staff
• pre-testing
• training of field personnel
• collecting data 
• processing data
• submitting of clean final data

The survey was commissioned by the NCEPH of ANU and funded by the AusAID.