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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents

From: Household health care-seeking costs: experiences from a randomized, controlled trial of community-based malaria and pneumonia treatment among under-fives in eastern Uganda

Characteristics of caregiver

Exit interviews (n = 282)

Household interviews (n = 470)

 

Rural

Urban

Total

Rural

Urban

Total

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Gender Female

      

Marital status

153 (96.2)

118 (95.9)

271 (96.1)

277 (91.1)

157 (94.6)

434 (92.3)

Married

126 (79.3)

110 (89.4)

236 (83.7)

272 (89.5)

139 (83.7)

411 (87.5)

Widow

3 (1.4)

5 (4.1)

8 (2.8)

12 (3.9)

9 (5.4)

21 (4.5)

Never married

15 (9.4)

4 (3.3)

19 (6.7)

9 (3.0)

9 (5.4)

18 (3.8)

Divorced/separated

15 (9.4)

4 (3.3)

19 (6.7)

11 (3.6)

9 (5.4)

20 (4.3)

Occupation of caregiver

      

Peasant farmer

110 (69.2)

29 (37.2)

139 (49.3)

260 (85.5)

15 (9.0)

275 (58.5)

Petty trader

41 (25.8)

28 (35.9)

69 (24.5)

23 (7.6)

55 (33.1)

78 (16.6)

Private/public employee

22 (13.8)

5 (6.4)

27 (9.6)

6 (2.0)

20 (12.0)

26 (5.5)

Casual worker

30 (18.8)

10 (12.8)

40 (14.2)

11 (3.6)

72 (43.4)

83 (17.7)

Unemployed

1 (0.6)

6 (7.7

7 (2.5)

4 (1.3)

4 (2.4)

8 (1.7)

Age

      

Mean age (range) of caregiver (yrs)

  

26.3 (10–60)

  

31.7 (16–80)

Mean age (range) of child (months)

  

14.36 (1–60)

  

27.3 (1–60)