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Table 1 Characteristics of households, survey respondents, and children under-five at baseline (2014)

From: Malaria control across borders: quasi-experimental evidence from the Trans-Kunene malaria initiative (TKMI)

 

Angola and Namibia

Household characteristics

 Number of households

740

 Mean household size (N = 739)

9.01 (6.21)

 Mean number of children under-five (N = 740)

1.91 (1.58)

 Mean number of LLITNs in household (N = 713)

0.77 (1.39)

 Mean number of LLITNs used last night (N = 713)

0.60 (1.13)

 Mean number of sleeping spaces in households (N = 735)

4.54 (2.56)

 Percentage of sleeping spaces covered with bed net on night before the survey (N = 704)

14%

 Percentage of households that had visitors from across the border stay the night in the last month (N = 727)

43%

 Percentage of households with individuals who have stayed overnight across the border in the last month (N = 732)

44%

Respondent characteristics

 

 Percentage of female respondents (N = 727)

60%

 Mean age of respondents (N = 733)

56 (20)

 Mean highest grade achieved in school (N = 715)

4 (4)

 Percentage of correct responses to malaria related questions (N = 740)

60%

Under-five children characteristics

 Mean age of under-five children (N = 1311)

2 (1)

 Percentage of under-five children who slept under LLITNs last night (N = 1328)

14%

 Percentage of under-five children with fever in last 2 weeks (N = 1295)

23%

  1. Standard deviations in parentheses