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Table 1 Household and population sample characteristics

From: Overcoming practical challenges to pilot Sierra Leone’s first school-based distribution of piperonyl butoxide-synergist ITNs: findings from a 2023 assessment in Kono district

 

Control

Intervention

P-value

Total

 

N = 408

N = 542

 

N = 950

Mean number of persons per sleeping space

2.2

2.2

0.4476

2.2

 

N = 408

N = 524

 

N = 950

Percentage of households with any children under five

38.2%

49.6%

 < 0.001

44.7%

Percentage of households with a female head of household

28.8%

29.7%

0.777

29.3%

Mean age of household head

46.6

47.2

0.5228

47.0

Highest level of education achieved by household head

N = 408

N = 542

 

N = 950

 No formal education

51.5%

60.7%

0.0047

56.7%

 Primary

13.5%

14.9%

0.5255

14.3%

 Secondary

27.7%

20.1%

0.0065

23.4%

 Higher

7.4%

4.2%

0.0397

5.6%

Household wealth index

N = 408

N = 542

 

N = 950

 Lowest

28.9%

36.5%

0.013

33.3%

 Middle

28.9%

36.7%

0.011

33.4%

 Highest

42.2%

26.8%

 < 0.001

33.4%

 Percentage of households that recall receiving any ITNs from the mass campaign in 2020

56.4%

57.9%

0.601

57.3%

 Mean number of mass campaign ITNs reportedly received

2.0

2.2

0.0186

2.1