Increasing coverage of insecticide-treated nets in rural Nigeria: implications of consumer knowledge, preferences and expenditures for malaria prevention

Table 3 Household expenditure to prevent malaria and level of acquisition of untreated nets

Variables	Values n = 798 n (%)
Households that had bought untreated nets before the survey	122 (15.3%)
Number of households that actually spent money to prevent malaria	202 (25.2%)
Amount households spent the previous month to prevent malaria (Naira)
Mean (S.D.)	55.55 (175.6)
95% Confidence interval	43.45 – 67.84
Median	0.00

Note: • Chi-square of differences in numbers of people that bought untreated nets and those who did not = 198.0 (p < 0.0001)
• Chi-square of differences in numbers of households that spent money to prvent malaria and those who did not = 386.4 (p < 0.0001)

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