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Table 2 Baseline mean characteristics in intervention and control clusters, and normalized mean differences across arms # *

From: Strengthening malaria service delivery through supportive supervision and community mobilization in an endemic Indian setting: an evaluation of nested delivery models

 

Supportive supervision and community mobilization (Arm A)

Community mobilization (Arm B)

Control

Normalized differences: Arms A-B

Normalized differences: Arms A-K

Normalized differences: Arms B-K

Wealth Index

0.452 (0.696)

0.372 (0.628)

0.337 (0.611)

0.085

0.124

0.040

Livestock (count)

2.131 (2.478)

2.413 (2.953)

2.362 (2.824)

-0.073

-0.061

0.012

Poultry (count)

4.926 (6.836)

4.885 (7.624)

5.095 (6.633)

0.004

-0.018

-0.021

Cropped During Previous Season (proportion)

0.982 (0.133)

0.985 (0.123)

0.983 (0.131)

-0.017

-0.005

0.011

Household Has Bank Account (proportion)

0.810 (0.393)

0.803 (0.399)

0.777 (0.417)

0.012

0.058

0.045

Household Head is Male (proportion)

0.913 (0.282)

0.910 (0.287)

0.918 (0.275)

0.007

-0.013

-0.020

Household Head is Currently Married (Proportion)

0.885 (0.320)

0.848 (0.360)

0.867 (0.340)

0.077

0.039

-0.038

Household Head Has Less Than Primary Education (proportion)

0.309 (0.463)

0.307 (0.462)

0.290 (0.455)

0.003

0.029

0.026

Males in Wage Labor (count)

0.730 (0.444)

0.773 (0.419)

0.805 (0.397)

0.070

-0.126

-0.055

Females in Wage Labor (count)

0.415 (0.493)

0.473 (0.500)

0.541 (0.499)

-0.083

-0.180

-0.096

Household Has Non-farm Enterprise (proportion)

0.200 (0.401)

0.258 (0.438)

0.167 (0.373)

-0.098

0.060

0.158

Household Younger than 5 (proportion of total)

0.101 (0.132)

0.109 (0.142)

0.112 (0.146)

-0.041

-0.056

-0.015

Total Household Size (count)

5.500 (2.100)

5.458 (2.188)

5.359 (1.870)

0.014

0.050

0.034

  1. #None of the 39 pairwise t-tests for equality of means across study arms revealed a significant difference between the average household characteristics at a 5% level of significance.
  2. *There are 788 households in Arm A, 781 in Arm B and 775 in the control arm.
  3. +Standard deviations in parentheses.