Table 3.
Respondents' assessment of the significance of environmental problems in the community.
| Living close to the dumpsites (CD) (<50 m) |
Living away from the dumpsites (AD) (50–300 m) |
Significance | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minor n (%) | Moderate n (%) | I don't know n (%) | Severe n (%) | Highly severe n (%) | Minor n (%) | Moderate n (%) | I don't know n (%) | Severe n (%) | Highly severe n (%) | ||
| Noise pollution | 0 | 17 (32.1) | 14(26.4) | 21 (39.6) | 1 (1.9) | 11 (8.66) | 67 (52.76) | 42 (33.07) | 7 (5.51) | 0 | 0.011 |
| Mosquitoes and sandflies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 (60.3) | 21 (39.6) | 1 (0.8) | 10 (7.9) | 0 | 89 (70.1) | 27 (21.2) | .073 |