Equity monitoring for social marketing: use of wealth quintiles and the concentration index for decision making in HIV prevention, family planning, and malaria programs

Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of respondents in PSI surveys

	Nepal Malaria Survey, 2010 (n = 1,503)	Nepal Family Planning Survey, 2011 (n = 1,036)	Burkina Faso HIV Survey, 2010 (n = 568)
Gender
Respondent*
Male	54%	-	59%
Female	46%	100%	41%
Average age of respondent (yrs)	26	30	20
Marital status of respondent
Single (never married)	0%	-	92%
Married/in-Union	>99%	100%	7%
Separated/Divorced/Widowed	<1%	-	1%
Education of respondent
None	42%	44%	41%
Some or completed primary	15%	14%	21%
Some or completed secondary	43%	42%	38%
Employment status
Employed	56%	33%	51%
Student	1%	<1%	33%
Unemployed/Homemaker	43%	67%	17%

*In the Nepal malaria survey, gender refers to children under five years of age. The survey respondents for these children were all women.

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