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Table 2 Mosquito net ownership in 2011

From: Progress in mosquito net coverage in Papua New Guinea

Background characteristic

Ownership of LLIN,

Ownership of >1 LLIN,

One LLIN per two people,

Number of households

 

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

 

Region

    

  Southern

94.3 (91.6, 96.2)

85.8 (82.5, 88.6)

61.6 (55.7, 67.2)

784

  Highlands

76.1 (62.5, 85.8)

57.1 (41.2, 71.8)

36.0 (23.6, 50.7)

434

  Momase

75.4 (62.9, 84.8)

59.7 (49.2, 69.3)

25.9 (18.4, 35.1)

396

  Islands

98.3 (95.0, 99.4)

84.5 (79.0, 88.8)

62.2 (57.6, 66.6)

382

  P-value

0.002

0.001

<0.001

 

Road access

    

  No

90.9 (83.1, 95.3)

75.2 (67.6, 81.5)

46.4 (38.2, 54.8)

783

  Yes

78.1 (68.7, 85.3)

62.7 (51.2, 72.9)

39.3 (30.2, 49.3)

1,213

  P-value

0.018

0. 057

0.304

 

Altitude (m)

    

  0-1299

88.0 (82.9, 91.7)

75.4 (70.8, 75.4)

47.3 (42.3, 52.3)

1,538

  1300-1699

65.4 (42.0, 83.1)

47.8 (27.8, 68.5)

28.3 (15.2, 46.5)

122

  1700+

78.9 (61.8, 89.6)

59.9 (39.2, 77.5)

37.6 (21.8, 56.6)

336

  P-value

0.055

0.056

0.223

 

LLIN distribution

    

  >2 years ago or never

67.6 (55.0, 78.2)

48.4 (34.9, 62.2)

25.1 (16.0, 36.9)

433

  Last 2 years

88.8 (84.3, 92.2)

75.1 (70.1, 79.6)

49.5 (44.3, 54.7)

1,544

  P-value

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

 

High quality house

    

  No

82.3 (74.9, 87.9)

66.7 (57.8, 74.5)

42.0 (35.0, 49.3)

1873

  Yes

56.0 (37.6, 72.8)

46.3 (31.4, 61.8)

11.5 (5.6, 22.3)

123

  P-value

0.002

0.020

<0.001

 

Wealth quintile

    

  Lowest

76.0 (63.2, 85.4)

61.6 (45.2, 75.7)

37.9 (25.1, 52.6)

387

  Second

80.1 (70.7, 87.0)

59.6 (50.8, 67.9)

35.4 (28.4, 43.1)

386

  Third

86.5 (80.4, 91.0)

70.9 (60.8, 79.3)

49.7 (39.5, 59.9)

387

  Fourth

86.4 (79.0, 91.5)

76.0 (69.0, 81.9)

48.9 (41.0, 56.9)

386

  Highest

78.1 (65.8, 86.9)

63.9 (53.1, 73.5)

31.7 (22.6, 42.5)

386

  P-value

0.045

0.031

0.030

 

Total

81.8 (74.5, 87.3)

66.3 (57.7, 73.9)

41.3 (34.5, 48.5)

1,996

  1. P- values of chi2 tests.