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Life satisfaction is increasingly recognized as a significant dimension of wellbeing. Thus the main b of the objective study will be to explore the association among income, family composition, health, and religion over life satisfaction. In this effort, correlates of the life satisfaction for the SAARC countries Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh analyzed. Micro data from the World Values Survey (WVS) fourth wave (1999 to 2004) for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh was utilized comprising a wide range of information on political, social and cultural values of countries. The multinomial logistic regression was employed to examine the effects of various socioeconomic and demographic factors on life satisfaction.  Health, income, shows significant positive factor in determining life satisfaction, however financial satisfaction is overpowered by religious faith especially in India and Pakistan. Employment had a positive impact on individual's satisfaction in Pakistan and India. Gender, education has insignificant impact on life satisfaction in three countries. Age has insignificant effect on life satisfaction in Pakistan, while shows insignificant impact in India and Bangladesh. Preferences for democracy are associated with life satisfaction in India and Bangladesh.

Development of any nation is estimated through child health condition. In particular, the fourth millennium development goal out of eight is to reduce the mortality rate. The target set under this goal was to reduce by two-third, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of child mortality. Maternal BMI is closely associated with child nutritional status. Weak mother having low BMI has low nutrition status which effect child weight. Healthy and balance food of mothers have positive effect on their child. Underweight mother can have impaired and poor growing kids. This study presents impact of some socio-economic demographic and maternal health related factors on health status of children in selected South Asian countries i.e. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The study used micro data from demographic and health survey (DHS) of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Multinomial logistic regression results revealed that mother education, mother working status, mother health, availability of safe drinking water, family size and vaccination have significant effect on child health. Mother's education is positively associated with healthy child. Working mothers are more likely to have healthy child. Weak and obese children are positively associated with malnourished and overweight mothers respectively. Small family size has positive impact on weak child health. Vaccination and availability of improved and safe water are positively associated with child health.

This study attempts to find out the association between the household socioeconomic factors with childhood diarrhoea in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. To estimate the determinants of diarrhoea, the study uses the data derived from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in three Asian countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal from 2011 to 2013. To find out the diarrhoea morbidity among child under five, the child age, child gender, mother's education and working status, child immunization, source of drinking water, type of toilet facility, washing hands behavior, floor material, and economic status of household has been used as independent variables. Binary logistic model is used to estimate the probability of diarrhoea morbidity among children of selected countries in this study. The results of binary logistic regression indicate that to reduce diarrhoea morbidity, washing hands especially after using toilet and at time of preparing food and eating food can play a major part. Mother's education and work status have significant impact on diarrhoea morbidity. The study concludes that family size has a strong impact on childhood diarrhoea morbidity. In small families, mothers have more time for child care than large families. So the chances of diarrhoea incidence are less in small families.