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Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of the study population in four sites of the Nouna DSA, Burkina Faso, from 01.12.2003 to 30.11.2004

From: Micro-epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum malaria: Is there any difference in transmission risk between neighbouring villages?

  

Sites

 

All (%)

Cissé (%)

Goni (%)

Kodougou (%)

Nouna (%)

*x 2 test

N

867

171

240

191

265

-

Household

427

74

125

77

151

 

Children/household**

2.0

2.3

1.9

2.5

1.8

 

Gender

     

p value = 0.420

   Female

455 (52.5)

103 (60.2)

116 (48.3)

98 (51.3)

138 (52.1)

 

   Male

412 (47.5)

68 (39.8)

124 (51.7)

93 (48.7)

127 (47.9)

 

Age in months

     

p value = 0.938

   < 12

80 (9.2)

14 (8.2)

19 (7.9)

15 (7.9)

32 (12.1)

 

   12–23

200 (23.1)

39 (22.8)

57 (23.8)

43 (22.5)

61 (23.0)

 

   24–35

202 (23.3)

36 (21.1)

59 (24.6)

43 (22.5)

64 (24.2)

 

   36–47

211 (24.3)

40 (23.4)

58 (24.2)

50 (26.2)

63 (23.8)

 

   48+

174 (20.1)

42 (24.6)

47 (19.6)

40 (20.9)

45 (17.0)

 
  1. *Mantel-Haenszel chi-Square test for a difference across sites, **Average number of children per household