Table 5 Household availability of insecticide-treated nets and protection by IRS among all households sampled
Percentage of households with at least one mosquito net (untreated or LLIN), one mosquito net per sleeping space (untreated or LLIN), and households with at least one LLIN and/or IRS in the last 12 months, by background characteristics and malaria transmission level, Zimbabwe MIS 2016 | |||||||||||
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Percentage of households with at least one mosquito net | Percentage of households with at least one net per sleeping space | ||||||||||
Background characteristic | No mosquito net | Any mosquito net | Any other net [untreated or insecticide-treated net (ITN)] | LLIN | Any mosquito net | LLIN | Any other net (untreated or ITN) | Percentage of households with IRS in the past 12 months | Percentage of households with at least one LLIN and/or IRS in the last 12 months | Percentage of households with at least one LLIN per sleeping space and/or IRS in last 12 months | Number of households |
Total | 38.5 | 61.5 | 4.4 | 58.1 | 53.8 | 50.7 | 4.4 | 62.4 | 85.3 | 82.5 | 8026 |
Sex of household head | |||||||||||
Male | 38.8 | 61.2 | 4.3 | 58.0 | 52.5 | 49.7 | 4.3 | 63.6 | 86.0 | 82.3 | 5212 |
Female | 37.9 | 62.1 | 4.7 | 58.2 | 56.2 | 52.5 | 4.7 | 60.2 | 84.1 | 82.9 | 2815 |
Malaria transmission level | |||||||||||
Moderate | 36.2 | 63.8 | 2.9 | 62.0 | 57.1 | 55.2 | 2.9 | 59.8 | 82.8 | 80.7 | 2543 |
High | 39.6 | 60.4 | 5.1 | 56.2 | 52.3 | 48.6 | 5.1 | 63.6 | 86.5 | 83.4 | 5484 |
Wealth quintile | |||||||||||
Lowest | 43.4 | 56.6 | 3.5 | 53.7 | 48.1 | 45.4 | 3.5 | 74.9 | 88.2 | 86.2 | 1380 |
Second | 46.7 | 53.3 | 3.4 | 50.6 | 46.4 | 43.8 | 3.4 | 73.2 | 86.6 | 84.9 | 1473 |
Middle | 40.6 | 59.4 | 5.4 | 55.3 | 52.3 | 48.8 | 5.4 | 76.8 | 89.3 | 88.0 | 1463 |
Fourth | 37.1 | 62.9 | 4.3 | 59.9 | 54.2 | 51.8 | 4.3 | 69.9 | 86.4 | 84.5 | 1542 |
Highest | 29.4 | 70.6 | 5.0 | 66.5 | 63.3 | 59.3 | 5.0 | 32.2 | 79.3 | 73.5 | 2169 |