Table 2.
Basic information on variables included in district-level models
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| Sociodemographic variables | |
| Residence | Percent of children in urban households (low/high): cut-off 9.7% |
| Household wealth | Survey-specific quintile of household wealth based on household assets (1–5) |
| Education level | Percent of children whose mothers attended primary school or more: (low/high): cut-off 79% |
| Water source | Percent of children with access to improved water source (low/high): cut-off 77% |
| Sanitation facilities | Percent of children with access to improved sanitation (low/high): cut-off 1.8% |
| Malaria transmission risk | District-level malaria transmission risk based on MAP 2010 PfPR2–10 (low/high): cut-off 41% |
| Rainfall anomaly | District-level difference between mean annual rainfall and average nine year rainfall (2002–2010) (low/high): cut-off 12.6 |
| Maternal and child health intervention variables | |
| Tetanus immunization status | Percent of children whose mothers had at least two tetanus injections during last pregnancy ending in live birth in past two years (low/high): cut-off 66% |
| Immunization status | Percent of children 6–23 months of age with complete immunization (3 doses polio, three doses DPT, BCG, and measles) (low/high): cut-off 62% |
| Vitamin A supplementation | Percent of children 6–59 months given vitamin A supplement in the past 6 months (low/high): cut-off 70% |
| Childhood illness variables | |
| Diarrhea | Percent of children less than 5 years of age had diarrhea in the 2 weeks before survey (low/high): cut-off 21% |
| Stunting | Percent of children less than 5 years of age greater than two standard deviations below the mean height for age (low/high): 46% |
| Malaria control intervention variables | |
| ITN coverage | Percent of children living in a household covered by an ITN according to modeled estimates combining household ITN ownership and ITN distribution data adjusted for population and a lag factor (low/high): 52.4% |
| ITN ownership | Percent of children living in a household that owns at least one ITN (low/high): 50% |
ITN = insecticide-treated net; MAP = Malaria Atlas Project; PfPR2–10 = Plasmodium falciparum prevalence rate in children age 2–10 years.