Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of interviewees in each national sample

	Mali		Burkina Faso		Zambia		Tanzania
	N	% (CI)	N	% (CI)	N	% (CI)	N	% (CI)
Total	1588		721		1093		950
Gender
Female	730	46 (43–48)	349	48 (45–52)	671	61 (58–64)	473	50 (47–53)
Male	854	54 (51–56)	365	51 (47–54)	413	38 (35–41)	470	49 (46–53)
Age
16–29	760	48 (45–50)	316	44 (40–48)	482	44 (41–47)	416	44 (41–47)
30–45	511	32 (30–35)	284	39 (36–43)	395	36 (33–39)	381	40 (37–43)
>45	317	20 (18–22)	118	16 (14–19)	206	19 (17–21)	147	16 (13–18)
Mean number children <5 years (range)		0.81 (0–9)		0.77 (0–5)		1.01 (0–7)		1.56 (0–5)
Mean number trips (range)		1.56 (1–51)		3.42 (1–100)		2.30 (1–100)		1.40 (1–20)
Proportion who travelled (DHS)		0.313		0.291		0.431		0.427
Own bed net
Yes	N/A	N/A	581	81 (78–83)	778	71 (68–74)	853	90 (88–92)
No	N/A	N/A	136	19 (16–22)	314	29 (26–32)	91	10 (8–12)
Own mobile phone
Yes	859	54 (52–57)	527	73 (70–76)	715	65 (63–68)	726	76 (74–79)
No	727	46 (43–48)	191	26 (23–30)	330	30 (27–33)	217	23 (20–26)

The number of individuals (N) and percentage of the sample (exact binomial 95 % confidence interval), or mean (range) are shown. All interviewees did not answer all questions, hence there are some missing values