Table 1 Summary of national households surveys with data on ITN use among all age-groups in African countries where national surveys reported information on all ages: countries are ranked from highest to lowest based on the proportion of individuals of all ages who slept under an ITN the night prior to survey.
From: The use of insecticide treated nets by age: implications for universal coverage in Africa
Country | Survey | Year | Month | Number of clusters sampled for survey | Number of households samples for survey | Number of persons seen during survey | Number of ITN owned by the sampled households | % of household with at least two ITN | % of children <5 years old sleeping under ITN the night before survey | % of persons of all ages sleeping under ITN the night before survey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group 1 | Kenya | MIS | 2007 | June-July | 200 | 6,854 | 31,297 | 5,483 | 22.5 | 39.2 | 38.9 |
Tanzania | AIS/MIS | 2007-8 | October-February | 475 | 8,497 | 41,871 | 5,948 | 18.8 | 32.3 | 29.4 | |
Zambia | DHS | 2007 | April-October | 319 | 7,164 | 35,562 | 8,486 | 24.9 | 29.1 | 23.9 | |
Mali | DHS | 2006 | April-September | 408 | 12,998 | 73,685 | 15,621 | 25.2 | 27.3 | 21.2 | |
Group 2 | Benin | DHS | 2006 | July-November | 750 | 17,511 | 90,650 | 12,790 | 10.3 | 19.7 | 14.1 |
Senegal | MIS | 2006 | November-December | 150 | 3,063 | 30,199 | 3,998 | 21.7 | 16.2 | 13.2 | |
Angola | MIS | 2006-7 | November-April | 120 | 2,599 | 14,399 | 1,040 | 10.9 | 17.7 | 13.0 | |
Djibouti | MIS | 2008-9 | December-February | 156 | 3,603 | 22,373 | 1,802 | 17.6 | 19.9 | 13.0 | |
Sudan | MIS | 2005 | October | 143 | 2,460 | 10,639 | 1,194 | 4.8 | 15.4 | 11.3 | |
Group 3 | Rwanda | DHS | 2005 | February-July | 462 | 10,272 | 47,851 | 4,498 | 4.2 | 13.6 | 9.4 |
Uganda | DHS | 2006 | May-October | 368 | 8,870 | 45,439 | 3,291 | 5.8 | 9.6 | 7.2 | |
Namibia | DHS | 2006-7 | October-March | 500 | 9,200 | 42,633 | 2,562 | 8 | 11.1 | 6.0 | |
Niger | DHS | 2006 | January-June | 345 | 7,660 | 47,964 | 2,633 | 12.8 | 8.7 | 5.5 | |
DRC | DHS | 2007 | May-August | 300 | 8,886 | 48,291 | 2,567 | 1.9 | 7.7 | 5.3 | |
Zimbabwe | DHS | 2005-6 | August-March | 400 | 9,285 | 40,805 | 929 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 | |
Ethiopia | DHS | 2005 | April-August | 540 | 13,721 | 67,539 | 589 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 1.5 | |
Guinea | DHS | 2005 | February-June | 297 | 6,282 | 38,182 | 409 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.1 | |
Swaziland | DHS | 2006-7 | July-February | 275 | 4,843 | 22,143 | 86 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 |