Table 2.

Household ownership of nets and malaria cases, by income quintile

Quintile	No. households owning a net		No. nets per household	No. households bought net		No. households received free net		Avg. malaria case rate per1000 hospital person years (2007)
	N	%	N	N	%	N	%
Q1 (most poor)	58	15.9	0.34	48	17.0	81	23.5	120.6
Q2 (very poor)	70	19.2	0.49	61	21.6	71	20.6	109.8
Q3 (poor)	69	18.9	0.56	46	16.3	60	17.4	101.5
Q4 (less poor)	73	20.0	0.57	60	21.3	54	15.7	87.6
Q5 (least poor)	95	26.0	0.86	67	23.8	78	22.7	75.3
Total	365	100	0.56	282	100	344	100	99.6
Chi2	23.3***			9.3*		6.2

*, *** statistically significant relationship between the two variables