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. 2017 Jul 24;97(3):876–887. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-1006

Table 1.

Child and household characteristics among children enrolled in this serologic substudy, disaggregated by study arm

Characteristics Intervention (N = 75) count (%) Control (N = 114) count (%) Total (N = 189) count (%)
Female 40 (53.3) 54 (47.4) 94 (49.7)
Age at enrollment (months)
 6 1 (1.5) 1 (1.0) 2 (1.2)
 7–8 22 (32.4) 36 (35.6) 58 (34.3)
 9–10 18 (26.5) 38 (37.6) 56 (33.1)
 11–12 27 (39.7) 26 (25.7) 53 (31.4)
Socioeconomic status*
 Lowest 10 (13.3) 18 (15.8) 28 (14.8)
 Second lowest 11 (14.5) 20 (17.5) 31 (16.4)
 Middle 14 (18.7) 26 (22.8) 40 (21.2)
 Second highest 21 (28.0) 27 (23.7) 48 (25.4)
 Highest 19 (25.3) 23 (20.2) 42 (22.2)
Time between rounds (months)
 6–7 1 (1.5) 0 1 (0.6)
 8–9 31 (46.3) 69 (67.0) 100 (58.8)
 10–12 35 (52.2) 34 (33.0) 69 (40.6)
Primary water source
 Piped water into dwelling or plot 1 (1.3) 0 1 (0.5)
 Hand pump/borehole 18 (24.0) 30 (26.6) 48 (25.5)
 Protected spring/well 40 (53.3) 54 (47.8) 94 (50.0)
 Unprotected spring/well 13 (17.3) 20 (17.7) 33 (17.6)
 Surface water 3 (4.0) 9 (8.0) 12 (6.4
Toilet type
 Pit latrine with slab 24 (33.8) 35 (34.0) 59 (33.9)
 Pit latrine with no slab 45 (63.4) 60 (58.3) 105 (60.3)
 Ventilated pit latrine 0 3 (2.9) 3 (1.7)
 Composting toilet 2 (2.8) 5 (4.9) 7 (4.0)
Feces within 1 M of toilet 31 (41.3) 41 (36.0) 72 (38.1)
Shared sanitation 24 (32.0) 27 (24.6) 51 (27.8)
*

Socioeconomic status quintile determined through polychoric principal components analysis, as described in the supplement.