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. 2013 Aug 6;8(8):e70972. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070972

Table 1. Characteristics of sampled and simulated households: 2007 and 2008.

2007 2008
SampledHouseholds SimulatedHouseholds p-value SampledHouseholds SimulatedHouseholds p-value
Number of households 48 7,980 75 7,961
Number of individuals screened 284 47,058 403 42,620
Residents per household (mean, SD) 5.93 (3.13) 5.90 (3.07) .927 5.37 (2.69) 5.35 (2.65) .949
Mean age (mean, SD) 25.26 (15.77) 25.04 (15.37) .942 26.74 (16.32) 26.76 (16.13) .975
Households with an RDT positive individual (%) 66.7 74.4 .245 24.0 16.8 .119
Households with an individual taking antimalarials (%) 10.4 21.1 .076 9.3 22.1 .007
Households with an individual with care seeking behavior (%) 70.8 86.8 .004 85.3 82.4 .647
Households with an individual with malaria-like symptoms (%) 75.0 70.0 .529 64.0 70.0 .258
Households with an individual with malaria-like symptoms and care seeking behavior (%) 37.5 31.1 .349 34.7 34.1 .903
Households with an individual taking antimalarials with care seeking behavior (%) 22.9 24.7 .868 6.7 4.5 .067
Total households identified through reactive case detection (%) 34.3 42.5 .393 40.9 49.9 .521