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Table 1 Demographic and household characteristics of the study participants

From: Pneumococcal carriage among HIV infected children in Accra, Ghana

Parameter	Number	%
Age (mean = 5.8 ± 3.3 years)
< 5 years	21	17.8
5–9 years	27	22.9
≥ 9 years	70	59.3
Gender
Male	61	51.7
Female	57	48.3
Current school attendance	102	86.4
Religion
Christian	99	83.9
Moslem	19	16.1
Resident type
Compound house	87	73.7
Self contained	31	26.3
No. of persons in house (mean = 17 ± 13)
< 5	9	7.6
5–10	40	33.9
11–20	34	28.8
21–30	15	12.7
31–40	10	8.5
40	8	6.8
Exposure to passive smoking	23	19.5

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