Socioeconomic health inequality in malaria indicators in rural western Kenya: evidence from a household malaria survey on burden and care-seeking behaviour

Table 5 Association between household socioeconomic status and insecticide-treated net use in Siaya County, Kenya, 2012

	n	N	ITN use percent	aPR	95% confidenceinterval		p-value
SES
Poorest	676	1070	63.2	0.96	0.87	1.05	0.397
Less-poor	773	1158	66.8	Ref
Age group (years)
< 5	790	1117	67.1	1.00	0.94	1.07	0.976
5-14	231	427	54.1	0.79	0.71	0.89	< 0.001
≥ 15	428	624	68.6	Ref
Sub-county
Gem	387	685	56.5	0.70	0.63	0.79	< 0.001
Siaya	498	842	59.1	0.73	0.65	0.81	< 0.001
Rarieda	564	701	80.5	Ref
Sex
Female	802	1225	65.5	1.00	0.95	1.07	0.811
Male	647	1003	64.5	Ref

SES socioeconomic status, ITN insecticide-treated net, aPR adjusted prevalence ratio

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