Table 3.

Distribution of environmental and socioeconomic characteristics by malaria positive, negative and total household (HH)

	Malaria Positive household N = 116		Malaria Negative household N = 634		Total household N = 750
	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Forest within 3 km	37.9	29.1-46.8	29.5	26.0-33.1	30.8	27.5-34.1
Water within 3 km	55.2	46.1-64.2	72.4	68.9-75.9	69.7	66.4-73.0
Precarious house	46.6	37.5-55.6	28.5	25.0-32.0	31.3	28.0-34.7
HH with less than 3 bed nets	62.9	54.1-71.7	46.1	42.2-49.9	48.7	45.1-52.3
Having cattle or small animal$	95.7	91.9-99.3	92.4	90.4-94.5	92.9	91.1-94.8
HH with more than 5 family members	41.4	32.4-50.3	33.6	29.9-37.3	34.8	31.4-38.2
Illiterate household head	50.0	41.0-59.1	45.6	41.7-49.5	46.3	42.7-49.8
Deficient HH	62.1	53.2-71.0	50.8	46.9-54.7	52.5	48.9-56.1

^$Chickens, ducks, goats