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. 2024 Mar 14;14:6157. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-56233-9

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics measurement data, including number of children, and water extraction data for the full sample, per stratum, and per experimental group (control and treatment).

Full sample Stratum 1: Finland Stratum 2: Germany
Control group Treatment group Control group Treatment group
Mean number of children in day care centre per daya 36.60 (9.12) 31.20 (3.98) 41.70 (4.93) 21.56 (4.03) 41.07 (7.09)
Mean baseline water extractions per day 248.37 (115.12) 344.84 (55.26) 200.31 (77.71) 108.85 (28.39) 339.46 (61.33)
Mean baseline water extractions per day and child 7.71 (2.34) 9.97 (1.01) 5.26 (0.85) 6.20 (1.68) 9.35 (1.34)
Mean baseline soaping time 8.45 (7.79) 6.77 (6.84) 7.93 (7.29) 9.05 (8.15) 9.22 (8.12)
N water extractionsa 42,187 12,933 7732 5366 16,156
N handwashing processesa 13,466 2927 2451 1815 6273

Descriptive statistics for the full sample and the different clusters, based on measurement data from the day care centres. Standard deviations are reported in parentheses.

aReported figures include baseline, intervention, and post-phase.