A strategy to increase adoption of locally-produced, ceramic cookstoves in rural Kenyan households

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Demographic and household socioeconomic characteristics by stove type, Nyanza Province, Kenya, July 2008–December 2009 ^a

	Upesi jiko	Three-stone stove
	N (%)	N (%)	P-value^b
Woman’s age (years) ^c			<0.0001
< 22	6 (6.7)	312 (23.1)
22–25	20 (20.2)	343 (25.4)
26–31	20 (20.2)	364 (27.0)
>31	44 (48.9)	330 (24.5)
Woman’s education ^c			0.98
None or some primary school	44 (48.9)	660 (49.0)
Completed primary school or more	46 (51.1)	687 (51.0)
Household socioeconomic status quintiles ^d			<0.0001
0 (most poor)	12 (9.8)	353 (20.3)
1	14 (11.4)	377 (21.6)
2	16 (13.0)	309 (17.7)
3	39 (31.7)	353 (20.3)
4 (least poor)	42 (34.2)	351 (20.1)

^a Stove types are upesi jiko (ceramic-lined cookstoves) vs. three-stone stoves (traditional firepits with surrounding stones). Household data on stove type were linked to demographic and socioeconomic data for 158 (20.9%) of 757 households with upesi jiko and a random sample of 1,782 households with three-stone stoves.
^b P-values are for χ ² tests of association between stove type and demographic and socioeconomic factors.
^c Primary caregiver of children in the household. Age and education categorized based on quartiles and the approximate median, respectively. Data were missing for 667 (88.1%) households with upesi jiko and 435 (24.4%) households with three-stone stoves.
^d A principal component analysis of household assets (e.g., household goods, building structure) was used to create quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) among NICHE participant households. SES data were missing for 634 (83.8%) households with upesi jiko and 39 (2.2%) households with three-stone stoves.

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