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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of patients enrolled in the in vivo therapeutic efficacy study of CQ for Plasmodium vivax malaria at Hossana Health Care Centre Southern Ethiopia from April to June 2014

From: Therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria among outpatients at Hossana Health Care Centre, southern Ethiopia

Socio-demographic variables

Total no. (%)

Age (in years)

 Median

23

 Range

4–59

Gender

 Male

35 (58.3)

 Female

25 (41.7)

Ethnicity

 Hadiya

40 (66.7)

 Kembata

11 (18.3)

 Gurage

7 (11.7)

 Silte

2 (3.3)

Occupation

 Government employee

2 (3.3)

 Unemployed

3 (5.0)

 Student

27 (45.0)

 House wife

15 (25.0)

 Farmer

8 (13.8)

 Daily laborer

4 (6.7)

 Others

1 (1.7)

Marital status

 Single

28 (46.7)

 Married

31 (51.7)

 Widowed

1