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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomass Bioenergy. 2013 Aug 2;57:136–148. doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.07.002

Table 2.

Stove use measurements collected with during initial adoption (1) and sustained use (2) with Stove Use Monitors (SUMs) and during sustained use with recall questionnaires (3).

Both
groups
Group 1
newer users
Group 2
older users
Data Collection
(1) Initial Adoption – SUMs Measurements
  Number of cookstovesa in 1st monitoring period (percent) 50 (100%) 30 (60%) 20 (40%)
(2) Sustained Use – SUMs Measurements
  Mean cookstoves in periods 1 to 16 (S.D.) 72.4 (2.7) 45.9 (2.3) 26.5 (2.8)
  Mean monitoring periods per cookstove (range) 13.7 (1–15) 12.9 (10–15)
  Total cookstoves and days measured 30,122 19,058 11,064
(3) Sustained Use – Recall Questionnaires & SUMs
  Questionnaires with SUMsb during 15-day recall 192 131 61
  Questionnaires with SUMs during 3-month recall 168 109 59
a

At each house only one chimney cookstove was monitored.

b

The responses to the quarterly recall questionnaires of each household were matched with SUMs measures recorded during the 3-month and 15-day periods prior to the questionnaire date.