Table 1.

Mean Number of Reported Contacts and Ratio of Means By Socio-demographic Characteristic of The Study Population, Sheema, Uganda, January – March 2014

Variables	Number	Mean number of contacts (95%CI)	Crude RoM (95%CI)	Age adjusted RoM (95%CI)
Age groups
< 2y	61	6.11 (5.42,6.81)	0.99 (0.83,1.17)
2-4y	57	6.70 (6.08,6.81)	1.08 (0.95,1.23)
5-9y	74	8.50 (7.79,9.20)	1.37 (1.18,1.59)
10-14y	51	8.70 (7.52,9.90)	1.40 (1.19,1.66)
15-24y	91	6.20 (5.51,6.88)	ref
25-34y	57	6.89 (5.99,7.80)	1.11 (0.93,1.33)
35-44y	55	7.73 (6.99,8.46)	1.25 (1.09,1.43)
45-54y	46	7.74 (6.37,9.11)	1.25 (1.01,1.54)
55-64y	26	6.27 (5.01,7.53)	1.01 (0.80,1.29)
65 + y	48	4.85 (4.18,5.53)	0.78 (0.64,0.95)
Sex
Female	330	7.05 (6.66,7.44)	ref
Male	236	7.47 (6.82,8.11)	1.06 (0.96,1.18)
Occupation/daily activity
Pre-school child	93	7.00 (6.30,7.70)	1.06 (0.90,1.23)	1.26 (1.02,1.55)
Student	166	8.27 (7.56,8.98)	1.27 (1.10,1.46)	1.30 (1.05,1.63)
Office worker	4	11.34 (9.64,13.03)	1.81 (1.20,2.73)	1.70 (1.32,2.18)
Shop worker	34	6.82 (5.56,8.08)	1.03 (0.84,1.25)	1.03 (0.83,1.29)
Agriculture	106	7.30 (6.58,8.01)	1.12 (0.97,1.30)	1.12 (0.96,1.30)
Other manual worker	40	5.37 (4.36,6.38)	0.85 (0.70,1.04)	0.85 (0.68,1.06)
At home	60	6.43 (5.62,7.24)	ref	ref
Unemployed	11	6.44 (2.92,9.96)	0.83 (0.60,1.15)	1.22 (0.77,1.94)
Retired	8	4.77 (3.75,5.80)	0.71 (0.48,1.05)	0.89 (0.70,1.13)
Other/unreported	41	6.65 (5.80,7.51)	1.02 (0.85,1.23)	1.18 (0.98,1.43)
Don’t know	1	–	–	–
Day of the week
Weekday	441	7.14 (6.79,7.49)	ref
Sunday	125	7.50 (6.56,8.44)	1.05 (0.92,1.20)	1.04 (0.92,1.18)
Travel outside village/town in previous 24 hours
No	427	6.57 (6.20,6.92)	ref
Yes	139	9.04 (8.35,9.73)	1.38 (1.25,1.52)	1.35 (1.22,1.49)
Number of casual contacts
< 10	315	5 (1 -15)	Ref	Ref
10 -19	119	8 (2-23)	1.43 (1.28, 1.59)	1.39 (1.25, 1.55)
≥ 20	56	9 (2-25)	1.64 (1.44; 1.86)	1.61 (1.43,1.83)
Don’t know	76	8 (0-19)	1.52 (1.37; 1.68)	1.45 (1.29, 1.64)

CI Confidence interval, RoM ratio of means