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. 2010 Jan 15;9:1. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-9-1

Table 2.

Household Respondents' socio-economic and demographic characteristics

Urban
N = 576
Rural
N = 555
Combined
N = 1131
Respondent' status
Female head of household: n % 22 (3.8) 119 (21.4) 141 (12.5)
Male head of household: n % 16 (2.8) 48 (8.6) 64 (5.7)
Wife: n % 442 (76.7) 349 (62.9) 791 (69.9)
Grandmother: n % 13 (2.2) 6 (1.1) 19 (1.7)
Representative of household: n % 83 (14.4) 33 (5.9) 116 (10.3)

Whether married: n % 498 (86.5) 498 (89.7) 996 (88.1)

People in the household: Mean (SD): 5.5 (3.9) 4.7 (2.4) 5.2 (3.3)

Age of respondent (years): Mean (SD) 36.4 (11.3) 40.2 (14.5) 38.2 (13.1)

Sex of respondents
Females: n % 541 (93.9) 515 (92.8) 1056 (93.4)
Males: n % 35 (6.1) 40 (7.2) 75 (6.6)

Years of education: Mean (SD) 10.7 (3.7) 7.1 (5.7) 8.9 (5.1)

Occupation: n %
Farmer 21 (3.6) 190 (34.2) 211 (18.7)
Unemployed 86 (14.9) 66 (11.9) 152 (13.4)
Petty trading 261 (45.3) 103 (18.6) 364 (32.2)
 Civil servant 96 (16.7) 68 (12.3) 164 (14.5)
Private employment 20 (3.5) 19 (3.4) 39 (3.4)
Big business man/woman 19 (3.3) 36 (6.5) 55 (4.9)
Self employed 44 (7.6) 59 (10.6) 103 (9.1)
Others 15 (2.6) 20 (3.6) 35 (3.1)

SES quartiles
Q1 (most poor): n % 222 (38.5) 61 (11.0) 283 (25)
Q2 (very poor): n % 78 (13.5) 204 (36.8) 282 (24.9)
Q3 (poor): n % 152 (26.4) 131 (23.6) 283 (25.0)
Q4 Least poor): n % 124 (21.6) 159 (28.6) 283 (25.0)