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Table 2 General and socio-demographic characteristics of participants

From: Distribution of Plasmodium species and assessment of performance of diagnostic tools used during a malaria survey in Southern and Western Provinces of Zambia

Characteristics

Southern; n = 1096

Western; n = 471

n (%)

CI

n (%)

CI

Gender

 Male

505 (46.1)

43.6–48.5

210 (44.6)

39.5–49.8

 Female

591 (53.9)

51.5–56.4

261 (55.4)

50.2–60.5

Age of children (years)

 < 5

197 (18.0)

14.2–22.5

86 (18.3)

15.6–21.2

 5–10

200 (18.3)

16.0–20.7

87 (18.5)

14.9–22.6

 11–15

178 (16.2)

13.5–19.4

69 (14.7)

10.6–20.0

 16–25

140 (12.8)

10.5–15.5

72 (15.3)

11.8–19.6

 26–40

191 (17.4)

15.1–20.0

59 (12.5)

7.4–20.3

 40–94

190 (17.7)

14.3–20.8

98 (20.8)

17.6–24.4

Travel history

 Yes

6 (0.5)

0.2–1.4

23 (4.9)

1.7–13.2

 No

1089 (99.5)

98.6–99.8

445 (95.1)

86.8–98.3

Household sprayed

 Yes

730 (67.2)

52.4–79.1

149 (31.6)

8.7–69.1

 No

357 (32.8)

20.8–47.6

322 (68.4)

30.9–91.2

ITN ownership

 Yes

673 (61.4)

38.8–80.0

269 (57.1)

29.2–81.1

 No

13 (1.2)

0.1–9.7

8 (1.7)

0.3–8.6

 Missing information

410 (37.4)

18.7–60.8

194 (41.2)

17.1–70.4

Cluster

    

 Average no of people/cluster

156.5

 

78.5

 

 Number of clusters

7

 

6

 
  1. The tables shows the general and socio-demographic characteristics of the participant in the two study areas