Table 1 Demographic characteristics of persons in selected households
From: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of malaria in Colombia
Medium risk | High risk | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 214) | (n = 53) | ||||
Gender | n | % | n | % | p-value |
Female | 162 | 75.7 | 36 | 67.9 | 0.247 |
Male | 52 | 24.3 | 17 | 32.1 | |
Occupation | |||||
Labourer | 10 | 4.7 | 14 | 26.4 | 0.000 |
Farmer | 19 | 8.9 | 1 | 1.9 | 0.083 |
Housewife | 121 | 56.5 | 33 | 62.3 | 0.450 |
Student | 13 | 6.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.065 |
House type | |||||
Brick | 110 | 51.4 | 9 | 17.0 | 0.000 |
Wooden hut | 75 | 35.0 | 1 | 1.9 | 0.000 |
Shacks | 25 | 11.7 | 43 | 81.1 | 0.000 |
Where is the sanitary service? | |||||
Inside the house | 93 | 43.5 | 3 | 5.7 | 0.000 |
Outside the house | 119 | 55.6 | 50 | 94.3 | |
Distance source of water | |||||
Inside House | 130 | 60.7 | 1 | 1.9 | 0.000 |
Less than 20 m | 26 | 12.1 | 15 | 28.3 | 0.003 |
Between 50 and 100 m | 13 | 6.1 | 13 | 24.5 | 0.000 |
More than 100 m | 5 | 2.3 | 23 | 43.4 | 0.000 |
Source of water | |||||
Aqueduct | 133 | 62.1 | 1 | 1.9 | 0.000 |
Well | 23 | 10.7 | 19 | 35.8 | 0.000 |
River | 5 | 2.3 | 28 | 52.8 | 0.000 |
Rainwater | 47 | 22.0 | 5 | 9.4 | 0.039 |