Table 1.
Characteristics of the surveyed Nicaraguan communities
| Community | Population | Location | Interview date |
House holds |
Located in War Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Piedad | 28,000 | East central Nicaragua, located near nation’s capital and close to Pacific coast |
2000 | 200 | no |
| San Juan | 13,000 | Southeast Nicaragua, near Costa Rica border and close to the Pacific coast |
2000 | 195 | no |
| Lucena | 18,500 | Northeast central Nicaragua | 2002 | 202 | no |
| Rosario | 12,000 | North central Nicaragua, near the Honduras border |
2002 | 200 | no |
| El Real | 36,000 | Northeast central Nicaragua | 2002 | 200 | no |