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Table 1 Mean Number of Reported Contacts and Ratio of Means By Socio-demographic Characteristic of The Study Population, Sheema, Uganda, January – March 2014

From: Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact: a survey in Southwest Uganda

Variables

Number

Mean number of contacts (95%CI)

Crude RoM

(95%CI)

Age adjusted RoM (95%CI)

Age groups

  < 2y

61

6.11 (5.42,6.81)

0.99 (0.83,1.17)

 

 2-4y

57

6.70 (6.08,6.81)

1.08 (0.95,1.23)

 

 5-9y

74

8.50 (7.79,9.20)

1.37 (1.18,1.59)

 

 10-14y

51

8.70 (7.52,9.90)

1.40 (1.19,1.66)

 

 15-24y

91

6.20 (5.51,6.88)

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 25-34y

57

6.89 (5.99,7.80)

1.11 (0.93,1.33)

 

 35-44y

55

7.73 (6.99,8.46)

1.25 (1.09,1.43)

 

 45-54y

46

7.74 (6.37,9.11)

1.25 (1.01,1.54)

 

 55-64y

26

6.27 (5.01,7.53)

1.01 (0.80,1.29)

 

 65 + y

48

4.85 (4.18,5.53)

0.78 (0.64,0.95)

 

Sex

 Female

330

7.05 (6.66,7.44)

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 Male

236

7.47 (6.82,8.11)

1.06 (0.96,1.18)

 

Occupation/daily activity

 Pre-school child

93

7.00 (6.30,7.70)

1.06 (0.90,1.23)

1.26 (1.02,1.55)

 Student

166

8.27 (7.56,8.98)

1.27 (1.10,1.46)

1.30 (1.05,1.63)

 Office worker

4

11.34 (9.64,13.03)

1.81 (1.20,2.73)

1.70 (1.32,2.18)

 Shop worker

34

6.82 (5.56,8.08)

1.03 (0.84,1.25)

1.03 (0.83,1.29)

 Agriculture

106

7.30 (6.58,8.01)

1.12 (0.97,1.30)

1.12 (0.96,1.30)

 Other manual worker

40

5.37 (4.36,6.38)

0.85 (0.70,1.04)

0.85 (0.68,1.06)

 At home

60

6.43 (5.62,7.24)

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 Unemployed

11

6.44 (2.92,9.96)

0.83 (0.60,1.15)

1.22 (0.77,1.94)

 Retired

8

4.77 (3.75,5.80)

0.71 (0.48,1.05)

0.89 (0.70,1.13)

 Other/unreported

41

6.65 (5.80,7.51)

1.02 (0.85,1.23)

1.18 (0.98,1.43)

 Don’t know

1

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–

–

Day of the week

 Weekday

441

7.14 (6.79,7.49)

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 Sunday

125

7.50 (6.56,8.44)

1.05 (0.92,1.20)

1.04 (0.92,1.18)

Travel outside village/town in previous 24 hours

 No

427

6.57 (6.20,6.92)

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 Yes

139

9.04 (8.35,9.73)

1.38 (1.25,1.52)

1.35 (1.22,1.49)

Number of casual contacts

  < 10

315

5 (1 -15)

Ref

Ref

 10 -19

119

8 (2-23)

1.43 (1.28, 1.59)

1.39 (1.25, 1.55)

  ≥ 20

56

9 (2-25)

1.64 (1.44; 1.86)

1.61 (1.43,1.83)

 Don’t know

76

8 (0-19)

1.52 (1.37; 1.68)

1.45 (1.29, 1.64)

  1. CI Confidence interval, RoM ratio of means