Community knowledge, perceptions, and practices regarding malaria and its control in Jabi Tehnan district, Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the study subjects

Classification	Variable (1 = yes, 0 = no)	Households reported malaria		Households reported no malaria		Mean difference	P-value
Classification	Variable (1 = yes, 0 = no)	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean difference	P-value
Gender	Sex of the household head is male (1/0)	0.89	0.31	0.84	0.37	0.05	0.00
Family size	Family size	5.3	1.92	4.75	1.92	0.55	0.00
Marital status	Married (1/0)	0.88	0.33	0.83	0.38	0.05	0.00
Education	Illiterate (1/0)	0.53	0.50	0.57	0.5	− 0.04	0.02
	Schooling 1–7 years (1/0)	0.41	0.48	0.36	0.48	0.05	0.00
	Schooling above > 7 years (1/0)	0.07	0.25	0.08	0.27	− 0.01	0.40
Occupation	Farming (1/0)	0.98	0.14	0.99	0.12	− 0.01	0.21
Bed nets	Have bed nets (1/0)	0.70	0.46	0.70	0.46	0.00	0.94
	Number of bed nets owned	1.64	0.76	1.64	0.7586	0.09	0.86
	Number of rooms with bed nets	1.83	1.79	1.63	1.42	0.20	0.00
Housing characteristics	Eave open (1/0)	0.18	0.38	0.16	0.37	0.01	0.34
	Eave fully closed (1/0)	0.53	0.50	0.6	0.49	− 0.07	0.00
	Eave partially closed (1/0)	0.29	0.45	0.23	0.42	0.06	0.00
	Main house screened (1/0)	0.11	0.31	0.09	0.29	0.02	0.10
	Animals sheltered within house (1/0)	0.42	0.49	0.4	0.49	0.02	0.28
	Animals sheltered outside house (1/0)	0.53	0.49	0.53	0.5	0.00	0.89
	No animals (1/0)	0.05	0.21	0.06	0.24	− 0.02	0.04
	Number of observations	3010

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