A cross-sectional study of the availability and price of anti-malarial medicines and malaria rapid diagnostic tests in private sector retail drug outlets in rural Western Kenya, 2013

Table 1 Characteristics of private sector retail drug outlets in Siaya County, Kenya—2013

	Drug-outlet type		Personnel employed			Business open (hours per day)		Estimated daily customers^a
	n	(%)	n	Mean	Range	Mean	Range	n	Mean	Range
Registered pharmacy	24	(13.4)	47	2.0	1–4	12.1	9.5–14.5	21	74.0	10–250
Informal drug shop	45	(25.1)	62	1.4	1–2	11.2	7.0–16.0	44	34.4	3–200
General shop	83	(46.4)	123	1.5	1–2	13.1	6.0–16.0	83	15.0	2–100
Homestead	23	(12.8)	26	1.1	1–2	14.2	8.0–17.0	23	5.6	1–10
Other^c	4	(2.2)	5	1.3	1–2	11.6	8.0–15.0	4	12.5	10–20
Total	179	(100.0)^b	263	1.5	1–4	12.6	6.0–17.0	175	25.7	1–250

^aN = 175 drug outlets; four removed from analysis due to estimates >3 standard deviations above mean (outliers)
^bTotal equals slightly less than 100 % due to rounding
^cOther category included mobile vendors, veterinary shops stocking human and animal medicines and shops operated by for-profit community-based organisations

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