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Table 2 Socioeconomic profile, meteorological findings, river quota, and operational characteristics of dengue surveillance services in Amazonas municipalities

From: Dengue epidemic typology and risk factors for extensive epidemic in Amazonas state, Brazil, 2010–2011

Feature

N

Mean

SD

Max.

Min.

Socioeconomic profile

 Illiteracy rate

62

20.9

9.7

40.7

4.0

 Income Gini Index

62

0.6

0.1

0.8

0.5

 Proportion of poor

62

53.0

12.0

74.2

12.9

 Per capita income

62

251.3

98.3

790.3

122.2

 Unemployment rate

62

7.6

3.3

18.9

1.6

 Prop. of pop. in households with bathroom and piped water

62

36.2

16.0

83.6

9.5

 Prop. of pop. in households with garbage collection

62

80.3

19.8

100.0

0.1

 Human Development Index (HDI)

62

0.56

0.1

0.7

0.4

 Proportion of urban population

62

54.9

14.3

99.5

4.2

Meteorological and river quota

 Average wind speed

62

0.9

0.4

1.8

0.1

 Annual average heat stroke

62

156.0

19.8

193.5

121.9

 Average days with precipitation

62

15.8

1.7

18.9

12.6

 Annual average rainfall

62

215.3

23.5

253.5

167.9

 Average minimum temperature

62

23.2

0.9

25.0

21.4

 Average maximum temperature

62

32.8

0.4

33.8

32.1

 Average relative humidity

62

84.5

2.1

87.3

79.8

 Average temperature compensated

62

27.0

0.5

28.0

26.1

 Average of the maximum quota

62

1181.0

470.0

2653.0

425.2

 Average of the minimum quota

62

960.7

469.8

2482.5

316.2

 Average of the middle quota

62

1068.9

469.3

2553.2

382.6

Vector Control

 Proportion of goals reached from home visits

62

26.1

29.3

88.1

0

 Number of years with a target of 5 home visits reached a

62

0.4

0.8

3

0

 Number of years with infestation a

62

2.2

2.4

5

0

 Appropriate ratio of the number of agents per property

62

0.3

0.5

1

0

 Appropriate ratio of the number of supervisors to health agent

62

0.6

0.5

1

0

 Adequacy of the number of supervisors and agents for amount of building

62

1.1

1.4

3

0

 Household infestation mean index for the period

62

0.5

0.9

3.6

0

 Number of years with household infestation mean index higher than 1%

62

0.6

1.1

4

0

  1. aRecorded between 2006 and 2010