Table 4.

Indicators of malaria vector biting behaviour and human exposure metrics (P_i, P_fl and π_i) as estimated by each of the three traps for Anopheles gambiae s.l. and Anopheles funestus s.l.

Taxon	Method	Proportion caught indoors (Pi)		Proportion caught when most people are indoors (Pfl)		Proportion of human exposure occurring indoors (πi)
		Estimate (95 % CI)	p	Estimate (95 % CI)	p	Estimate (95 % CI)	p
An. gambiae s.l.	HLCa	0.37 (0.34–0.40)	N/A	0.93 (0.89–0.96)	N/A	0.43 (0.37–0.50)	N/A
	MET	0.35 (0.32–0.38)	0.25	0.68 (0.56–0.79)	<0.001	0.36 (0.31–0.42)	0.042
	CA-EG	0.34 (0.31–0.37)	0.08	0.40 (0.28–0.54)	<0.001	0.47 (0.40–0.53)	0.44
An. funestus s.l.	HLCa	0.51 (0.47–0.56)	N/A	0.76 (0.68–0.82)	N/A	0.55 (0.48–0.63)	N/A
	MET	0.51 (0.46–0.55)	0.10	0.70 (0.62–0.77)	0.18	0.74 (0.68–0.80)	<0.001
	CA-EG	0.55 (0.47–0.64)	0.51	0.63 (0.53–0.71)	0.009	0.81 (0.74–0.86)	<0.001

Estimates of the proportion of mosquitoes caught when most people are indoors (P_fl) and the proportion of human exposure occurring indoors (π_i) were calculated based on mosquito numbers collected during times when most people are indoors (21.00–05.00)

The p values listed are tests of the comparison of the estimates obtained from the electrocuting traps and those from the HLC (as the reference trap)

^aReference trap