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Table 1 Analyses, sub-analyses and exploratory analyses undertaken with detail on categorisation of the exposure of interest

From: Cooking outdoors or with cleaner fuels does not increase malarial risk in children under 5 years: a cross-sectional study of 17 sub-Saharan African countries

Analysis

Exposure of interest

Categories

Adjusted for

Sub-analysis

Exploratory analysis controlling for

Analysis 1

Biomass usage

• Cleaner (electricity, LPG, natural gas, biogas)

• Solid biomass fuels and kerosene (kerosene, coal/lignite, charcoal, wood, straw/shrubs/grass, agricultural crop, animal dung)

• Child’s age, child’s gender, birth order, Child slept under slept under mosquito net last night, modified wealth index, number of household members, place of residence, malarial endemicity, season, cluster altitude and cooking location

• Urban areas only

• Rural areas only

• Mesoendemic areas only

• Household insecticidal spraying

• Household smoking and cooking location

Analysis 2

Biomass fuel type*

• Charcoal

• Wood

• Child’s age, child’s gender, birth order, Child slept under slept under mosquito net last night, modified wealth index, number of household members, place of residence, malarial endemicity, season, cluster altitude and cooking location

• Urban areas only

• Rural areas only

• Mesoendemic areas only

• Household insecticidal spraying

• Household smoking and cooking location

Analysis 3

Cooking location

• Outdoors

• In a separate building

• Indoors

• Child’s age, child’s gender, birth order, Child slept under slept under mosquito net last night, modified wealth index, number of household members, place of residence, malarial endemicity, season, cluster altitude and biomass cooking fuel type

• Urban areas only

• Rural areas only

• Mesoendemic areas only

• Wood cooking only

• Household insecticidal spraying

• Household smoking and cooking location

  1. *Charcoal and wood are the most commonly used type of biomass fuel and are next to each other on fuel ladder, with charcoal being relatively less polluting
  2. Only Solid biomass fuels and kerosene (kerosene, coal/lignite, charcoal, wood, straw/shrubs/grass, agricultural crop, animal dung) were included in the analysis and included as a covariate
  3. Countries excluded due to the variable being incomplete, high level of missing or low cell counts. For household insecticidal spraying excluded countries were: Burkina Faso 2017–2018, Cameron 2018, DRC 2013–2014, Malawi 2017, Mali 2018, Nigeria 2018, Tanzania 2017 and Togo 2017. For household smoking and cooking location excluded countries were: Burkina Faso 2017–2018, Ghana 2019, Liberia 2016, Malawi 2017, Mozambique 2018 and Sierra Leone 2016