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Table 1 Characteristics of households surveyed about actual healthcare utilization and subset of households surveyed about hypothetical healthcare utilization, South Africa, 2011–2012

From: Responses to hypothetical health scenarios overestimate healthcare utilization for common infectious syndromes: a cross-sectional survey, South Africa, 2012

 

Subset surveyed about hypothetical healthcare utilization

Main survey of healthcare utilization, excluding subset

P-value

Number of geographic coordinates sampled, N

300

3082

NA

 Number of invalid coordinates, n (%)

23 (8)

225 (7)

n.s.

 Households visited, n (%)

277 (92)

2857 (93)

n.s.

  Declined main survey, n (%)

24 (9)

234 (8)

n.s.

  Declined additional survey only, n (%)

22 (8)

NA

NA

  Primary caregiver unavailable, n (%)

41 (15)

420 (15)

n.s.

  Completed survey(s), n (%)

190 (69)

2203 (77)

< 0.01

Primary caregiver age, median years (IQR)

37 (28–52)

39 (29–52)

n.s.

Primary caregiver female, n (%)

138 (73)

1536 (70)

n.s.

Site

 Klerksdorp, n (%)

114 (60)

1318 (60)

n.s.

 Soweto, n (%)

76 (40)

885 (40)

n.s.

Monthly income <ZAR 2000, n (%)

116 (69)

1307 (68)

n.s.

  1. NA Not applicable