Table 5.

Prevalence of fever with shivering in past 15 days prior to the day of survey and relevant health-seeking behaviour %

	South-eastern districts			North-eastern districts			χ2 significance
	M	F	All	M	F	All
	a	b	c	d	e	f	C vs f
Had fever with shivering in last 15 days	1.7	2.0	1.8	0.5	0.4	0.4	p < 0.001
N	10147	9675	19822	16025	14962	30987
Health-seeking behaviour
No treatment	35.8	41.3	38.7	20.5	25.4	22.7
Self-treatment	10.4	11.1	10.8	15.1	11.9	13.6
Drug store salespeople	35.3	29.6	32.3	45.2	49.2	47.0
Paraprofessionals	2.3	4.8	3.6	2.7	3.4	3.0
Professional allopaths (MBBS doctors)	14.5	11.6	13.0	16.4	8.5	12.9
Others	1.7	1.6	1.7	0.0	1.7	0.8
χ2 significance	ns			ns
N	173	189	362	73	59	132