Table 1.

Sociodemographic Characteristics and Prevalence of Parasitic Infections of Study Participants, Primary School, Angolela, Ethiopia, October 2008

Characteristics	n (Total=664)	%
Grade
1	105	15.8
2	188	28.3
3	114	17.2
4	70	10.5
5	109	16.4
6	78	11.7
Gender
Female	323	48.6
Male	341	51.4
Mother literate
No	210	31.6
Yes	432	65.1
Father literate
No	396	59.6
Yes	261	39.3
Intestinal parasitic infection	Number infected	%
A. lumbricoides	23	3.5
Hookworm	3	.5
H. nana	10	1.5
T. trichiura	0	0
H. dimunita	28	4.2
E. vermicularis	11	1.7
Any helminithic infection	47	7.0
G. lamblia	48	7.2
E. histolytica	177	26.7
Any protozoa infection	202	30.4

^*Total numbers may not add to reported population size