Determinants of household demand for bed nets in a rural area of southern Mozambique

Malaria Journal

Table 4 Net ownership and usage¹

Variable	Owns net (logit)	Robust SE	Uses net (logit)	Robust SE	Bought net (logit)	Robust SE
Formal schooling	0.72	0.26	0.96	0.33	2.80**	1.16
SES quintile (Q1-Q5)	1.05	0.09	0.99	0.08	1.30***	0.13
Household received IRS	1.21	0.18	0.84	0.12	1.62***	0.28
Uses alternate method	0.22***	0.05	n/a	n/a	0.36***	0.08
Malaria cases	0.05***	0.04	0.10***	0.08	0.05***	0.05
No. of observations	980		980		980

¹ Odds ratios reported
Covariates: In addition to those shown, all regressions control for age, sex, occupation, number household members, interaction term between
SES quintile and formal schooling, knowledge of where nets are sold and price, head of household respondent, and child under 5 present in the household
*Significantly different from 0 at 90 percent confidence
**Significantly different from 0 at 95 percent confidence
***Significantly different from 0 at 99 percent confidence

ISSN: 1475-2875