Malaria prevalence, anemia and baseline intervention coverage prior to mass net distributions in Abia and Plateau States, Nigeria

Table 1 Characteristics of study households and individuals in Abia and Plateau states, Nigeria, September 2010

	Abia	Plateau
Number of clusters sampled	58	58
*Household characteristics*
Number of households sampled	1,305	1,335
Mean (SD) number of people per household	4.4 (2.7)	6.3 (3.1)*
Mean (SD) number of sleeping rooms per household	1.9 (1.1)	2.4 (1.2)*
Altitude
≤100 m (%)	55.1	0.0*
100–1000 m (%)	44.8	46.3
>1000 m (%)	0.2	53.7*
Household wealth index, quintiles
Poorest (%)	6.9	28.0*
Second (%)	11.8	25.7*
Third (%)	21.2	17.0
Fourth (%)	25.9	18.0
Richest (%)	34.3	11.3*
*Individual characteristics*
Number of persons in sampled households	5,754	8,303
Age
<5 yrs (%)	14.7	16.4
5-9 yrs (%)	12.0	16.0*
10-14 yrs (%)	9.9	11.9
15-19 yrs (%)	9.3	9.8
20-49 yrs (%)	35.5	36.7
≥50 yrs (%)	18.6	9.3*
Proportion female (%)	53.6	49.6
Pregnant women, self-reported (% of all individuals/% of women)	2.5/4.6	2.1/4.3

*Asterisk indicates statistically significant difference between states (non-overlapping 95% confidence intervals).

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