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Table 3 Temperature and humidity measured indoors before and after midnight in experiment D

From: Measuring ventilation in different typologies of rural Gambian houses: a pilot experimental study

Typology comparison

Temperature (oC) (n = 6)

Relative Humidity (%) (n = 6)

Control house, mean temp (oC)

Test house, mean temp (oC)

Difference, mean temp (oC)

t

p

Control house, mean RH %

Test house, mean RH %

Difference, mean RH %

t

p

21.00–24.00 h

 

31.7 (30.7–32.6)

31.6 (30.7–32.5)

0.1

1.029

0.351

72.2 (68.2–76.2)

78.4 (75.6–81.3)

− 6.2

− 3.001

0.030

 

30.7 (29.6–31.9)

29.3 (28.2–30.3)

1.5

11.099

< 0.001

81.4 (79.2–83.6)

83.8 (82.2–85.4)

− 2.4

− 6.316

0.01

 

30.2 (28.5–32.0)

29.8 (27.7–31.2)

0.8

13.458

< 0.001

81.4 (79.6–85.3)

83.8 (75.5–85.1)

− 2.4

− 6.316

0.001

 

30.2 (28.5–32.0)

29.6 (27.7–31.2)

0.8

13.458

< 0.001

82.5 (79.6–85.3)

80.3 (75.5–85.2)

2.2

2.572

0.050

 

30.8 (30.1–31.4)

29.3 (28.6–30.0)

1.5

17.034

< 0.001

85.6 (84.9–86.3)

85.1 (83.8–86.4)

0.5

1.349

0.235

00.00–06.00 h

 

30.7 (30.0–31.4)

30.5 (29.8–31.2)

0.2

11.918

< 0.001

76.7 (74.5–78.9)

74.8 (72.2–77.3)

1.9

8.784

<0.001

 

29.8 (28.9–30.8)

28.4 (27.5–29.2)

1.5

16.403

< 0.001

80.1 (77.2–82.9)

81.4 (77.6–85.2)

− 1.3

− 2.618

0.047

 

29.4 (28.2–30.5)

28.6 (27.4–29.7)

0.8

13.093

< 0.001

81.4 (79.2–83.6)

85.4 (83.8–87.1)

− 4.0

− 6.985

0.001

 

29.2 (27.8–30.5)

28.3 (27.0–29.6)

0.9

15.144

< 0.001

85.3 (83.3–87.2)

83.6 (80.2–87.0)

1.7

2.747

0.040

 

29.2 (28.5–29.8)

27.6 (26.9–28.3)

1.6

36.3

< 0.001

87.9 (87.0–88.7)

86.8 (85.5–88.1)

1.1

2.203

0.079