Table 1.

Dog population characteristics, with population size estimated from the dog per person ratios in Antananavario, Madagascar, 2007

	Total	Arrondissements						p-value
		I	II	III	IV	V	VI
	n (%)	n (%)	n(%)	n(%)	n(%)	n(%)	n(%)
Households visited	1 541	296	184	316	266	257	222
Households without dog	543	44	34	168	75	107	5	<0.01
	(35.2)	(14.9)	(18.5)	(53.2)	(28.2)	(41.6)	(2.3)
Means dogs per household	1.4	1.3	1.9	0.7	1.3	1.3	1.8	<0.01
Households with surrounding wall	511	176	44	78	47	107	59	<0.01
	(35.9)	(59.5)	(30.3)	(33.1)	(17.7)	(41.6)	(26.6)
Owned dogs	2180	388	320	382	360	332	398
Gender
Male	1336	217	190	213	239	206	271
	(61.3)	(55.9)	(59.4)	(55.8)	(66.4)	(62.0)	(68.1)	<0.01
Female	844	171	130	169	121	126	127
	(38.7)	(44.1)	(40.6)	(44.2)	(33.6)	(38.0)	(31.9)
Age
Mature	1325	256	220	200	205	214	230
	(60.8)	(66.0)	(68.8)	(52.4)	(56.9)	(64.5)	(57.8)	<0.01
Young	514	74	79	105	105	69	82
	(23.6)	(19.1)	(24.7)	(27.5)	(29.2)	(20.8)	(20.6)
Juvenile	341	58	21	77	50	49	86
	(15.6)	(14.9)	(6.6)	(20.2)	(13.9)	(14.8)	(21.6)
Agressivity	1126	185	185	267	104	263	122	<0.01
	(51.7)	(47.7)	(57.8)	(69.9)	(28.9)	(79.2)	(30.7)
Keep on a leash	147	43	18	25	17	24	20	<0.01
	(6.7)	(11.1)	(5.6)	(6.5)	(4.7)	(7.2)	(5.0)
Guard	1769	269	269	324	348	236	323	<0.01
	(81.1)	(69.3)	(84.1)	(84.8)	(96.7)	(71.1)	(81.2)
Dog scavenge in garbage	135	3	48	53	0	31	0	<0.01
	(6.2)	(0.8)	(15.0)	(13.9)	-	(9.3)	-
History of dog-to-person aggression	147	36	30	16	19	28	18	<0.01
	(6.7)	(9.3)	(9.4)	(4.2)	(5.3)	(8.4)	(4.5)
Vaccinated dogs	157	24	56	23	13	28	13	<0.01
	(7.2)	(6.2)	(17.5)	(6.0)	(3.6)	(8.4)	(3.3)
Unowned dogs	274	14	82	35	47	71	25
Gender
Male	141	6	49	16	35	25	10
	(51.5)	(42.9)	(59.8)	(45.7)	(74.5)	(35.2)	(40.0)	<0.01
Female	133	8	33	19	12	46	15
	(48.5)	(57.1)	(40.2)	(54.3)	(25.5)	(64.8)	(60.0)
Age
Mature	178	13	54	25	22	48	16
	(65.0)	(92.9)	(65.9)	(71.4)	(46.8)	(67.6)	(64.0)	0.04
Young	70	1	20	10	19	13	7
	(25.5)	(7.1)	(24.4)	(28.6)	(40.4)	(18.3)	(28.0)
Juvenile	26	0	8	0	6	10	2
	(9.5)	-	(9.8)	-	(12.8)	(14.1)	(8.0)
Body condition score
Fat	133	4	43	24	13	41	8
	(48.5)	(28.6)	(52.4)	(68.6)	(27.7)	(57.7)	(32.0)	<0.01
Thin	141	10	39	11	34	30	17
	(51.5)	(71.4)	(47.6)	(31.4)	(72.3)	(42.3)	(68.0)
Social behavior
Alone	160	14	46	34	25	29	12	<0.01
	(58.4)	(100.0)	(56.1)	(97.1)	(53.2)	(40.8)	(48.0)
In group	114	0	36	1	22	42	13
	(41.6)	-	(43.9)	(2.9)	(46.8)	(59.2)	(52.0)
Agressivity	23	0	8	5	1	8	1	0.23
	(8.4)	-	(9.8)	(14.3)	(2.1)	(11.3)	(4.0)
Known in the neighborhood	250	10	72	30	45	69	24	<0.01
	(91.2)	(71.4)	(87.8)	(85.7)	(95.7)	(97.2)	(96.0)
Overall Human Population	1 119235	226 815	170932	129188	188728	300120	103452
Population of the studied households	10 698	2 337	1 027	1 836	1 877	1 852	1 769
Dog Population estimated
Owned dog to person ratio	1: 4.9	1: 6.0	1: 3.2	1: 4.8	1: 5.2	1: 5.6	1: 4.4	<0.01
Unowned dog to person ratio	1:39.0	1:166	1:12.5	1:52.5	1:39.9	1:26.1	1:70.8	<0.01
Owned dogs estimated	231 085	37 651	53 330	26 871	36 235	53 721	23 277
Unowned Dogs estimated	29 449	1 318	10 879	2 257	4 167	9 455	1 373
Population dog estimated	260534	38 969	64209	29 128	40 402	63 176	24 650