Table 2 Characteristics of study households and individuals in the 2009 and 2011 surveys, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Household characteristics

 Number of households sampled

3896

2512

 Mean (SD) household size

7.1

5.9 (2.1)

Individual characteristics

 Number of persons in sampled households

27,371

15,005

 Median Age years (90 % central range)

–

17

 Age groups

  <6 months (%)

–

0.9

  6–59 months (%)

24.0

24.9

  5–9 years (%)

13.1

10.9

  10–14 years (%)

10.0

8.9

  15–19 years (%)

9.2

8.1

  ≥20 years (%)

43.7

46.2

 Proportion of females (%)

53.4

54.9