Table 2.

Definitions of housing quality used in the logistic regression model, The Gambia MIS 2010/11

Building characteristics	Materials used for construction
Floor	Good = (Cement or tiles)
	Poor = (Earth/sand, dung and palm bamboo)
Wall	Good = (Bricks, cement blocks, covered adobe and other)
	Poor = (Cane/palm/trunks, mud/dirt, stone with mud; and mud/krinting*)
Roof	Good = (Sod, metal corrugated iron, cement concrete)
	Poor = (Thatch/palm leaf)
Window	Good = (having a window with at least glasses, screen, curtain, or shutters)
	Poor = (No window at all or window without glasses, screen, curtain, or shutters)

*Krinting is a Wolof word for woven bamboo. Walls are constructed with woven krinting and then plastered with mud in the interior and exterior.