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Table 1 Background and socio-demographic attributes of the study participants

From: Monitoring malaria using health facility based surveys: challenges and limitations

Variables

Wet season, n (%)

Dry season, n (%)

Community

Facility

p-value

Community

Facility

p-value

N = 3870

N = 4539

N = 3707

N = 4098

Sex

Females

2063 (53.4)

2637 (58.0)

<0.001

1956 (52.7)

2369 (58.4)

<0.001

Ethnicity

Mandinka

2243 (58.1)

1723 (37.9)

<0.001

2057 (55.4)

1615 (39.6)

<0.001

Fula

996 (25.8)

1454 (32.0)

<0.001

1023 (27.6)

1256 (30.8)

0.002

Wollofs

295 (7.6)

516 (11.4)

<0.001

276 (7.4)

413 (10.1)

<0.001

Others

326 (8.5)

849 (18.7)

<0.001

355 (9.6)

793 (19.5)

<0.001

Marital status

Married

1010 (26.2)

1272 (33.8)

<0.001

928 (25.0)

1204 (29.5)

<0.001

Single

177 (4.6)

158 (4.2)

0.372

178 (4.8)

153 (3.8)

0.029

Widowed

60 (1.5)

90 (2.4)

0.003

38 (1.0)

79 (1.9)

0.001

Not applicable

2613 (67.6)

2242 (59.6)

<0.001

2563 (69.1)

2640 (64.8)

<0.001

Education

None

1774 (46.0)

2648 (58.4)

<0.001

1642 (44.4)

2336 (57.4)

<0.001

Arabic

1207 (31.3)

1176 (25.9)

<0.001

1174 (31.7)

978 (24.0)

<0.001

Primary

587 (15.2)

407 (9.0)

<0.001

614 (16.6)

489 (12.0)

<0.001

Secondary

287 (7.5)

306 (6.7)

0.154

270 (7.3)

269 (6.6)

0.224

Occupation

None

2564 (66.9)

2960 (65.3)

0.123

2491 (68.3)

2605 (64.5)

<0.001

Farming

774 (20.2)

655 (14.4)

<0.001

614 (16.8)

373 (9.2)

<0.001

Trading

46 (1.2)

91 (2.0)

0.004

54 (1.5)

84 (2.1)

0.047

Civil service

36 (0.9)

57 (1.3)

0.082

24 (0.6)

53 (1.3)

0.002

Housewife

173 (4.5)

583 (12.9)

<0.001

265 (7.3)

246 (6.1)

0.034

Others

241 (6.3)

188 (4.1)

<0.001

201 (5.5)

675 (16.7)

<0.001