Consumers stated and revealed preferences for community health workers and other strategies for the provision of timely and appropriate treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria

Table 1 Respondents'/household socio-economic and demographic characteristics

	Intervention villages N = 597 n (%)	Comparison villages N = 600 n (%)	Chi-square
Household head	352 (59.0)	373 (62.2)	1.28
Female	364 (61.0)	353 (58.8)	0.57
Age (years): Mean (SD)	54.04 (15.16)	53.52 (15.16)	0.24
Had formal education	344 (57.6)	255 (42.3)	27.34***
Married	531 (88.9)	528 (88.0)	0.26
No of household residents: Mean (SD)	4.51 (2.98)	4.32 (2.45)	0.70
Household owns a radio	495 (82.9)	464 (77.3)	5.85**
Household owns a bicycle	327 (54.8)	369 (61.5)	5.55**
Household owns a motorcycle	111 (18.6)	94 (15.7)	1.80
Household owns a motorcar	44 (7.4)	30 (5.0)	2.90
Average weekly per capita food value (SD)	368.41 (384.62)	299.14 (315.28)	16.18**

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