Table 1 Candidate explanatory variables

Age

0–69

Gender

0–100 % for both males and females

Household size

1–35

Village size

10–3698

Sleeping rooms

1–9

Bed net use

1–25

Distance to health Facilities

1–15

Temperature

18.1–41.7

Raining days

15–39

Housing materials

Material used for walls, roof, and floor

Cow

2–125

Goat

1–66

Sheep

0–99

Donkey

0–58

Horses

0–15

Distance to breeding site

10–300