Table 2 Association between sociodemographic characteristics and malaria knowledge
Variable | Categories | Malaria knowledge | Total | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High (%) | Medium (%) | Low (%) | ||||
Gender | Female | 79(24.4) | 186(57.4) | 59(18.2) | 324 | 0.207 |
Male | 20(18.7) | 60(56.1) | 27(25.2) | 107 | ||
Age group |  < 30 | 10(16.1) | 47(75.8) | 5(8.1) | 62 |  < 0.001 |
30–49 | 55(28.4) | 108(55.7) | 31(16.1) | 194 | ||
 ≥ 50 | 34(19.4) | 91(52.0) | 50(28.6) | 175 | ||
Education level | No formal | 21(17.8) | 67(56.8) | 30(25.4) | 118 | 0.006 |
Primary | 45(22.8) | 106(53.8) | 46(23.4) | 197 | ||
Secondary and higher | 33(28.4) | 73(62.9) | 10(8.6) | 116 | ||
Wealth index | Middle-income | 67(32.8) | 99(48.5) | 38(18.6) | 204 |  < 0.001 |
Low-income | 32(14.1) | 147(64.8) | 48(21.1) | 227 | ||
Occupation | Entrepreneur | 14(20.0) | 47(67.1) | 9(12.9) | 70 | 0.051 |
Formal employment | 6(33.3) | 10(55.6) | 2(11.1) | 18 | ||
Farming | 56(23.5) | 122(51.3) | 60(25.2) | 238 | ||
Fishing | 9(15.5) | 39(67.2) | 10(17.2) | 58 | ||
Other | 14(29.8) | 28(59.6) | 5(10.6) | 47 | ||
Years living in current shehia |  ≤ 1 | 3(13.6) | 15(18.2) | 4(18.2) | 22 | 0.144 |
2–5 | 2(9.5) | 17(81.0) | 2(9.5) | 21 | ||
 ≥ 6 | 94(24.2) | 214(55.2) | 80(20.6) | 388 | ||
Malaria incidence (Transmission) | High (≥ 1.9/1000) | 40(18.3) | 144(66.1) | 34(15.6) | 218 |  < 0.001 |
Low (< 1/1000) | 59(27.7) | 102(47.9) | 52(24.4) | 213 | ||