. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2014 Jul 17;19(10):1267–1275. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12364

Table 1.

Percentage of households taking action to kill household insect pests inside or outside the home, and the methods most commonly used by those taking action.

	All study households		Urban area		Rural area

	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Action taken to kill household insect pests (e.g., mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, ants, or termites)
Number of households	441		350		91
Yes	382	86.6	300	85.7	82	90.1^NS
No	59	13.4	50	14.3	9	9.9^NS
Methods used to control household insect pests (a household can report use of >1 method)
Number of households	382		300		82
Insecticide aerosol spray can	281	73.6	238	79.3	43	52.4^***
Electric plug-in insecticide emitter	143	37.4	99	33.0	44	53.7^***
Mosquito coil	108	28.3	82	27.3	26	31.7^NS
Smoke	19	5.0	15	5.0	4	4.9^NS
Electric insect racquet	11	2.9	10	3.3	1	1.2^NS

The statistical significance for the observed differences between the urban area and the rural area are indicated as follows: P > 0.05^NS;

P ≤ 0.05;

^**

P ≤ 0.01;

^***

P ≤ 0.001.