Table 1 Characteristics of women aged 15–49 years in eight districts, Malawi, 2009 (N = 6985)
Blantyre (N = 787) % (95 % CI) | Chiradzulu (N = 822) % (95 % CI) | Karonga (N = 845) % (95 % CI) | Lilongwe (N = 874) % (95 % CI) | Mwanza (N = 1068) % (95 % CI) | Nkhotakhota (N = 878) % (95 % CI) | Phalombe (N = 784) % (95 % CI) | Rumphi (N = 927) % (95 % CI) | Total (N = 6985) % (95 % CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean age | 27.2 (26.6–27.8) | 28.3 (27.8–28.8) | 28.2 (27.6–28.8) | 28.6 (28.0–29.1) | 27.4 (27.0–27.9) | 28.7 (27.9–29.4) | 27.8 (27.1–28.6) | 27.5 (28.9–28.1) | 28.1 (27.8–28.3) |
Ethnicity | |||||||||
Chewa | 9 (6–12) | 2 (0–3) | 3 (1–6) | 79 (66–92) | 16 (7–27) | 66 (53–80) | <1 (0–1) | 4 (1–6) | 40 (32–49) |
Yao | 22 (16–27) | 30 (18–42) | 1 (0–3) | 5 (0–10) | 1 (0–2) | 4 (1–6) | <1 (0–1) | 1 (0–2) | 10 (7–13) |
Tumbuka | 3 (1–5) | 0 | 34 (21–46) | 4 (1–7) | <1 (0–1) | 4 (1–8) | 0 | 91 (85–97) | 8 (6–10) |
Lomhwe | 27 (18–35) | 61 (48–74) | <1 (0–1) | 3 (1–4) | 3 (1–5) | 1 (0–1) | 98 (96–100) | 2 (0–3) | 19 (15–23) |
Other | 40 (32–47) | 7 (2–12) | 61 (47–76) | 9 (3–16) | 80 (70–89) | 24 (13–36) | 1 (0–1) | 3 (0–6) | 23 (19–27) |
Education | |||||||||
None | 6 (3–10) | 19 (14–23) | 4 (3–6) | 21 (15–28) | 17 (13–21) | 16 (10–24) | 23 (16–30) | 7 (3–12) | 16 (13–19) |
Some primary school | 38 (32–44) | 55 (51–59) | 54 (47–61) | 52 (44–61) | 62 (57–67) | 65 (57–73) | 62 (57–68) | 28 (21–35) | 50 (46–54) |
Completed primary school | 17 (14–21) | 13 (10–16) | 20 (17–24) | 8 (5–11) | 9 (5–12) | 6 (3–8) | 8 (5–10) | 34 (28–39) | 12 (10–14) |
Some secondary school | 22 (17–27) | 11 (8–14) | 16 (11–20) | 12 (6–18) | 10 (6–14) | 10 (6–14) | 5 (3–7) | 20 (15–26) | 14 (11–17) |
Completed secondary school or above | 16 (12–20) | 2 (1–4) | 6 (2–9) | 6 (1–11) | 3 (1–5) | 2 (0–4) | 2 (1–3) | 11 (5–16) | 8 (5–10) |
Socioeconomic status by asset index | |||||||||
Poorest | 11 (7–15) | 13 (10–16) | 10 (5–14) | 25 (18–33) | 28 (23–33) | 27 (20–35) | 18 (13–23) | 6 (4–9) | 19 (16–22) |
Less poor | 13 (10–16) | 19 (15–22) | 11 (8–14) | 14 (10–18) | 19 (15–23) | 21 (16–27) | 21 (17–25) | 13 (9–16) | 15 (13–17) |
Middle | 13 (10–17) | 29 (23–34) | 19 (15–24) | 19 (15–24) | 21 (18–24) | 18 (14–22) | 32 (28–35) | 20 (14–27) | 19 (17–22) |
More rich | 19 (15–24) | 30 (23–37) | 29 (24–35) | 15 (11–18) | 19 (16–23) | 16 (13–19) | 22 (17–28) | 22 (16–27) | 19 (17–21) |
Least poor | 43 (34–53) | 9 (6–13) | 31 (21–40) | 27 (13–41) | 13 (8–18) | 18 (7–28) | 7 (5–9) | 39 (28–49) | 28 (21–34) |
Used insecticide-treated bed net previous night | 57 (53–62) | 54 (49–59) | 54 (49–60) | 52 (43–60) | 60 (56–65) | 42 (39–46) | 54 (48–60) | 52 (45–58) | 53 (50–57) |
Used untreated bed net previous night | 15 (10–20) | 5 (3–6) | 16 (11–21) | 10 (4–15) | 2 (0–4) | 21 (16–26) | 3 (1–5) | 7 (2–13) | 11 (8–13) |