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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ecohealth. 2018 Sep 18;15(4):745–756. doi: 10.1007/s10393-018-1368-8

Table 3.

Stove use monitoring (SUMS) based on median income (n=measurement rounds)

Below
median per
capita income
n=73
Above
median per
capita income
n=77
Can pay
below median
fuel cost
n=56
Can pay
above median
fuel cost
n=50
Plancha use (hours/week), median (IQR) 11.9 (9.2–15.1)
n=33
15.2 (13.6–16.9) n=27 14.1 (12.9–16.7) n=16 14.7 (10.6–16.8) n=28
Open Fire use (hours/week), median (IQR) 6.0 (4.5–8.2) n=47 6.7 (4.5–8.6) n=64 6.0 (4.2–7.3) n=44 6.6 (5.0–9.4)
n=29
Gas stove use (hours/week), median (IQR) 8.7 (6.9–12.7) 8.5 (6.5–10.3) 8.1 (6.3–10.2) 7.6 (5.2–10.9)
% of total cooking time using gas
stove a,
median (IQR)
52 (41–65) 52 (34–61) 54 (37–59) 43 (33–53)
Participants compliant with gas
stove b, % (n)
19% (14) 9% (7) 13% (7) 16% (8)
a

Calculated as the median of the individual households % of total cooking times across all households over all rounds

b

Defined as 14 hours of gas stove use per week