About the Authors

Md. Nuruzzaman Khan

Affiliation Department of Population Science, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

M. Mofizul Islam

Affiliation Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Asma Ahmad Shariff

Affiliation Centre of Foundation Studies in Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Md. Mahmudul Alam

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Md. Mostafizur Rahman

mos_pshd@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MNK MMR. Data curation: MNK MMR. Formal analysis: MNK. Investigation: MNK MMR. Methodology: MNK MMR MMI. Project administration: MMR. Resources: MNK. Software: MNK. Supervision: MMI AAS MMA. Validation: MMI AAS. Visualization: MNK. Writing – original draft: MNK. Writing – review & editing: MMI AAS MMA.