Table 3. Characteristics of studies on care seeking behavior.

		Diarrhoea (n = 33)	Malaria (n = 32)	Pneumonia (n = 21)	Total1 (n = 77)
Location	Africa	17	31	8	49
	Asia	15	1	10	24
	Latin America	3	0	3	6
Date of data collection	Before 1990	6	3	1	9
	1990–1999	9	6	9	23
	2000–2009	17	21	11	42
	2010–2012	1	2	0	3
Age of participants	<2 years	0	1	0	1
	<3 years	2	2	1	5
	<5 years	31	29	20	71
Sample size	50–100	2	4	2	7
	101–500	7	12	9	28
	501–1000	5	6	2	13
	1001–5000	11	8	6	18
	>5000	8	2	2	11

¹Five studies examined two diseases, two studies examined all three diseases and one study was carried out in three continents (Africa, Asia and Latin America).