Exploring the use of routinely-available, retrospective data to study the association between malaria control scale-up and micro-economic outcomes in Zambia

Table 2 Baseline and endline variation in malaria control coverage, food spending, and maize production

Province	Coverage of ITNs and/or IRS			Total food spending (000s of 2010 Kwacha)			Maize production (metric tons 000s)
Province	2006 (%)	2010 (%)	Change (%)	2006	2010	Change (%)	2006	2010	Change (%)
Central	58	78	35	316	491	56	409	411	0
Copperbelt	54	77	42	483	637	32	206	161	−22
Eastern	42	78	84	252	329	31	436	456	5
Luapula	39	59	51	290	323	12	61	58	−5
Lusaka	34	65	90	528	676	28	92	74	−20
North Western	40	78	93	315	479	52	97	100	3
Northern	25	67	170	269	352	31	198	269	36
Southern	51	75	47	278	379	36	343	402	17
Western	66	78	18	225	283	26	101	100	−1
Average	45	73	62	342	455	33	233	243	4

Values may differ for food spending from the LCMS report due to differing treatment of outliers and possible, unobserved data cleaning or adjustments by the Central Statistical Office. Due to difficulties with the authors’ 2006 agricultural production data, they present the figures for maize production from the LCMS Survey Report 2006 and 2010. Averages are weighted by district population

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