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Table 1 Selected demographic characteristics of the study population

From: Industrial air pollution in rural Kenya: community awareness, risk perception and associations between risk variables

District/Sub-location

 

Overall (n %)

District A

District B

pvalue

S-location 1

S-location 2

Slocation 3

S-location 4

S-location 5

Questionnaires

Qs given

423

143

50

50

110

70

 

Qs Compltd

367 (87%)

111 (78%)

50 (100%)

40 (80%)

108 (98%)

58 (83%)

 

Gender

M

205 (56%)

54 (49%)

33 (66%)

26 (65%)

57 (53%)

35 (60.5%)

0.073

F

154 (42%)

57 (51%)

17 (34%)

14 (35%)

49 (45%)

17 (29%)

 

Missing

8 (2%)

   

2 (2%)

6 (10.5%)

 

Education (% Completed high school)

 

162 (44%)

56 (51%)

24 (49%)

18 (45%)

37 (34%)

27 (47%)

0.154

Employment (% Employed)

 

81 (22%)

28 (25%)

13 (26%)

9 (23%)

20 (19%)

11 (19%)

0.694

Household income

Up to 5,000

44 (12%)

5 (5%)

6 (12%)

1 (3%)

22 (20%)

10 (17%)

0.004*

5,001-10,000

17 (5%)

4 (4%)

4 (8%)

0 (0%)

7 (6%)

2 (3%)

 

> 10,000

21 (6%)

8 (7%)

2 (4%)

1 (3%)

4 (4%)

6 (10%)

 

Missing

266 (72%)

92 (83%)

38 (76%)

38 (95%)

58 (54%)

40 (69%)

 

NA

19 (5%)

2 (2%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

17 (16%)

0 (0%)

 

Family member worked for the factory

 

70 (19%)

36 (32%)

10 (20%)

2 (5%)

18 (18%)

4 (7%)

<0.001*

Child in household (%)

 

312 (85%)

80 (72%)

44 (88%)

34 (85%)

100 (93%)

54 (93%)

<0.001*

Distance from the factory

0 – 2 km

147 (40%)

93 (84%)

16 (32%)

10 (25%)

17 (16%)

11 (16%)

<0.001*

2 – 5 km

220 (60%)

18 (16%)

34 (68%)

30 (75%)

91 (84%)

47 (84%)

 

Lived there for >20 years

 

213 (59%)

57 (52%)

28 (56%)

34 (87%)

62 (57%)

32 (59%)

0.004*

Lived >10 years

 

286 (83%)

75 (79%)

39 (78%)

36 (92%)

92 (85%)

44 (82%)

0.315

  1. Legend: Qs given: No of Questionnaires given out.
  2. Qs Compltd: No. of Questionnaires completed.
  3. *p-value ≤ 0.05.