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Table 1 Demographic and socio-economic characteristics of surveyed households

From: Treatment of Febrile illness with artemisinin combination therapy: prevalence and predictors in five African household surveys

Households

Poor*

Non-poor*

 

Outside capital**

Within capital**

 
 

1485

3676

 

4188

973

 

Mean household size (95% Confidence Intervals)

7.0(6.5,7.5)

6.3(5.9,6.8)

 

6.5(6.1, 6.8)

6.8(5.5, 8.0)

 
 

Proportion Estimates

 

Proportion Estimates

 
 

(95% Confidence Intervals)

 

(95% Confidence Intervals)

 
   

Pearson chi2

  

Pearson chi2

Outside Capital

90.6(87.8, 93.4)

67.8(63.3, 72.3)

p<0.001

1.00(-,-)

0.0(0.0, 0.0)

na

Poor

1.00(-,-)

0.0(0.0, 0.0)

na

35.6(31.2, 40.1)

10.8(7.5, 14.1)

p<0.001

With children under 15 years old

91.2(89.2, 93.1)

85.4(83.3, 87.6)

p<0.001

88.1(86.3, 89.9)

84.2(80.1, 88.4)

ns

With children 5 years old

65.6(62.2, 68.9)

59.3(55.8, 62.7)

p<0.001

60.5(57.6, 63.4)

62.8(56.0, 69.5)

ns

Respondent

      

Female

49.3(44.5, 54.1)

54.5(51.2, 57.7)

ns

48.3(44.7, 51.9)

66.5(61.7, 71.4)

p<0.001

Age 25-50

64.7(61.3, 68.2)

71.0(68.5, 73.4)

p<0.01

66.5(64.3, 68.7)

76.9(71.8, 82.0)

p<0.001

Complete at least primary school

43.7(38.5, 48.9)

63.5(58.7, 68.2)

p<0.001

57.0(52.7, 61.4)

59.5(48.7, 70.2)

ns

Education high school or above

7.2(5.0, 9.5)

25.8(22.3, 29.2)

p<0.001

18.3(15.3, 21.3)

26.3(19.4, 33.3)

p<0.05

Opinions

      

Closet public facility has medicines

40.9(35.6, 46.2)

36.3(32.1, 40.4)

ns

38.9(34.8, 43.0)

33.8(25.9, 41.7)

ns

Free medicines at public facility

61.4(54.9, 68.0)

50.7(45.5, 56.0)

p<0.001

56.0(50.1, 62.0)

47.5(38.1,56.9)

ns

Can usually afford medicines needed

35.8(30.9, 40.7)

48.9(44.8, 53.0)

p<0.001

42.2(38.3,46.0)

53.4(44.0M,62.8)

P<0.05

Distance from closet public health care facility

      

Less than 15 mins

49.2(42.2, 55.8)

49.6(45.5,53.7)

ns

51.1(46.1,56.0)

44.8(37.1,52.4)

ns

Over 1 hour

19.3(14.1, 24.4)

11.4(8.8,13.9)

p<0.005

15.3(11.9,18.7)

9.1(4.8,13.3)

p<0.05

Distance from closet private health care provider

      

Less than 15 mminutes

31.1(25.0, 37.1)

40.7(35.5,45.9)

p<0.005

34.2(29.3,39.1)

48.7(36.6,60.8)

p=0.01

Over 1 hour

41.8(34.9,48.7)

25.5(21.0,29.9)

p<0.001

35.0(29.8,40.2)

16.3(7.0,25.6)

p<0.001

Distance from closet private medication retail outlet

      

Less tahn 15 minutes

62.1(55.3,68.8)

67.9(63.3,72.6)

ns

65.9(60.5,71.4)

67.0(58.4,75.6)

ns

Over 1 hour

18.8(13.4,24.2)

11.0(7.7,14.4)

p<0.01

15.3(11.4, 19.1)

7.5(1.2,13.8)

p<0.05

With medicines at home

39.4(35.1,43.6)

52.6(49.4,55.9)

p<0.001

47.6(44.2,51.0)

52.1(46.2,57.9)

ns

With anitimarial at home

9.1(7.2,11.0)

10.8(9.2,12.3)

ns

10.6(9.0,12.1)

9.4(6.9,11.8)

ns

Reporting Illness(es) in past two weeks

55.4(50.4,60.3)

48.7(45.2,52..1)

p=0.01

50.5(46.6,54.4)

50.9(44.6,57.3)

ns

Reporting fever epidode(s) in past two weeks

37.2(32.9,41.5)

33.7(30.4,36.9)

ns

34.1(30.8,37.4)

36.5(29.9,43.1)

ns

  1. *Respondent self-seclection into lowest pre-define country-specific expenditure based on data from recent national household surveys reporting per capita Gross National Income or Consumption.
  2. **The WHO survey methodology calls for surveying the “capital or most densely populated area in the country. The capital region was surveyed in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda; in Nigeria, logos was selected as the most densely populated area of the country.