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. 2016 Jan 7;15:14. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-1039-y

Table 2.

Summary statistics of the surveyed households

All households All households Male headed Female headed T-statistic
Number of technologies adopted 1.525 1.560 1.432 −3.942
(0.747) (0.762) (0.700)
Age of head of household (years) 43.0503 41.7644 46.2785 6.0622
(16.6433) (15.9916) (17.7826)
Formal education of head of household (years) 0.5890 0.6830 0.3528 −16.1602
(0.4921) (0.4654) (0.4782)
No of children under 5 years of age 1.2282 1.3666 0.8806 −10.1608
(1.1886) (1.2051) (1.0707)
Number of household members >5 years of age 4.7594 4.9836 4.1963 −7.3356
(2.6944) (2.7835) (2.3665)
Household head subscribes to a community group 0.5878 0.5769 0.6154 1.8296
(0.4923) (0.4942) (0.4868)
Household access to health related information (index) 0.4164 0.4242 0.3969 −2.3094
(0.2805) (0.2845) (0.2696)
Neighborhood effects (proportion of adopters in the village) 0.408 0.411 0.399 −1.683
(0.166) (0.167) (0.164)
Percapita income (Kenya Shillings) 15487.790 17529.130 10261.960 −3.811
(58193.640) (66718.110) (25004.410)
Study site (1 = Nyabondo, 0 = Malindi) 0.3963 0.3703 0.4615 4.2849
(0.4892) (0.4830) (0.4988)
Village level prevalence of malaria 0.119 0.117 0.123 2.268
(0.064) (0.062) (0.067)
Knowledge of malaria transmission (1 = knowledgeable) 0.8961 0.9107 0.8594 −3.5973
(0.3052) (0.2852) (0.3478)

Standard deviations in parentheses