The role of accountability in the performance of Jazia prime vendor system in Tanzania

Table 2 Key characteristics of the study settings

District council variable	Kondoa	Bahi	Ulanga	Kilosa
Population¹	269,704	221,645	265,203	438,175
Area coverage in square kilometres	5921	5948	24,460	14,918
Number of hospitals	1	0	1	1
Number of public health centres	2	6	2	6
Number of public dispensaries	27	35	43	19
Number of private facilities	12	2	6	25
Number of primary care facilities per 10,000 population	1.6	1.9	1.9	1.2
Facility sampled	7	6	7	7
Wards	28	20	24	35
Villages	107	57	68	143

¹Presents information from the study districts. Information on the population was obtained from the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics; Population and Housing Census 2013. While information on facilities was obtained from the Tanzanian national health facility registry portal

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