Table 1.
Items and Weights Used to Compute the Indices.
| Symptoms of malaria (N = 3,235) | Causes of malaria (N = 3,235) | Prevention of malaria (N = 3,235) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | Weight (1/3) | Items | Weight (1/3) | Items | Weight (1/3) |
| Feveract | 1/10 | Sweet | 1/12 | Use net | 1/13 |
| Diarrhoea | 1/10 | Sun | 1/12 | Use ITN | 1/13 |
| Dizziness | 1/10 | Contaminated food | 1/12 | Use repellent | 1/13 |
| Loss of appetite | 1/10 | Mosquito bite | 1/12 | Use mosquito spray | 1/13 |
| Weakness | 1/10 | P-falciparum | 1/12 | Clear weeds | 1/13 |
| Cough | 1/10 | Hereditary | 1/12 | Clear stagnated water | 1/13 |
| Chills | 1/10 | Surrounding | 1/12 | Clean surroundings | 1/13 |
| Bitterness | 1/10 | Weedy surrounding | 1/12 | Use mosquito screen | 1/13 |
| Urine colour | 1/10 | Stagnated water | 1/12 | Avoid outside | 1/13 |
| Eye colour | 1/10 | Eating oily food | 1/12 | Avoid cold food | 1/13 |
| Housefly | 1/12 | Avoid contaminated food | 1/13 | ||
| Hygiene | 1/12 | Hygiene | 1/13 | ||
| Clothes | 1/13 | ||||
Source: Authors’ computation based on data from MIC 2016.