Skip to main content
. 2008 Jan 29;4:5. doi: 10.1186/1746-6148-4-5

Table 1.

Patterns of dog ownership across 12 study sites in Tanzania. DOHH = Dog-owning households. Figures in bold are mean and 95% confidence intervals (in parentheses) derived from 10,000 bootstrap samples of the original data

Urban Rural


Inland Coastal Inland Coastal




Study site Koro Maje Mbuy Dund Ngam Teme Bwak Chin Kiri Kira Kiro Kisa
% DOHH 16.8 14.1 14.7 10.3 8.1 2.5 22.0 12.7 33.8 18.1 11.5 19.4
15.1 (14.1–16.0) 7.1 (6.5–7.8) 23.9 (22.1–25.8) 16.4 (14.8–18.1)
11.5 (10.9–12.1) 20.1 (18.9–21.4)
13.7 (13.2–14.3)
Households per dog 2.7 2.7 3.6 3.1 8.9 32.6 1.2 3.9 1.4 2.3 3.1 2.3
3.0 (2.7–3.2) 5.8 (5.1–6.7) 1.6 (1.5–1.8) 2.5 (2.2–2.8)
3.8 (3.6–4.1) 2.0 (1.8–2.1)
3.1 (2.9–3.2)
Humans per dog 15.4 8.3 11.1 11.0 78.6 214.6 6.6 17.5 5.3 8.3 11.7 14.0
14.4 (13.2–15.7) 27.2 (23.9–31.1) 7.6 (6.8–8.6) 10.8 (9.5–12.3)
18.0 (16.8–19.4) 8.9 (8.2–9.7)
14.3 (13.5–15.1)