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Table 2 Average monthly household expenditure on insecticides in USD by social vulnerability characteristics in 2010 baseline survey

From: Household costs for personal protection against mosquitoes: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of dengue prevention in Guerrero state, Mexico

Characteristic

n=

% of households using insecticides

Mean expenditure last month

SD

p=

 Acapulco

2189

51.5

5.1

4.8

<0.0000001

 Costa Grande

1618

40.5

4.2

3.9

 

 Costa Chica

1551

40.0

5.2

5.2

 

 Rural

2655

40.4

4.6

4.4

<0.0000001

 Urban

2703

48.7

5.1

4.9

 

 Indigenous

253

56.5

5.1

4.4

0.21

Mestizos

5092

43.7

4.9

4.7

 

 Non-permanent house

626

36.5

4.5

4.1

0.00002

 Semi-permanent house

2104

41.6

4.7

4.8

 

 Permanent house

2610

49.2

5.0

4.7

 

Household head education:

 Less than 3rd grade

1651

38.1

4.5

4.5

<0.0000001

 4th grade to high-school

3156

46.4

4.9

4.7

 

 Technical school or higher

499

56.1

5.6

5.2

 

 Household head unemployed

776

40.3

4.6

4.9

0.00009

 Household head employed

4570

45.0

4.9

4.6