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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 4.

Stove use monitoring (SUMS) based on wood collected or purchased and by season (n = measurement rounds)

Does not
Buy wood
[n=49]
Buys wood
[n=127]
Does not
collect
wood
(n=113)
Collects
wood
(n=63)
Season
No Harvest
(n=129)
Harvest
(n=48)
Rainy
(n=84)
Dry
(n=73)
Plancha use (hours/week), median (IQR) 13.8
(9.3–16.7)
n=16
14.4
(10.8–16.5)
n=58
13.5
(10.4–16.2)
n=52
14.9
(9.3–16.8)
n=22
13.3
(11.1–15.8)
n=36
14.7
(10.0–16.8)
n=28
13.5
(9.9–15.9)
n=57
15.5
(11.9–17.1)
n=17
Open Fire use (hours/week), median (IQR) 6.3
(4.1–9.4)
6.2
(4.7–8.1)
5.5
(4.5–7.2)
n=69
6.8
(5.1–9.6)
n=55
6.9
(4.9–10.0)
n=62
5.5
(4.0–7.5)
n=51
6.3
(4.5–8.6)
n=89
6.4
(5.0–9.0)
n=36
Gas stove use (hours/week), median (IQR) 7.8
(6.1–11.5)
8.6
(6.4–11.5)
8.6
(6.3–11.7)
7.9
(6.6–11.1)
8.1
(6.4–10.8)
8.6
(6.2–11.5)
8.5
(6.2–11.5)
8.8
(6.9–12.1)
% of total cooking time using gas stove a, median (IQR) 48
(28–66)
49
(36–60)
50
(37–60)
47
(30–65)
49
(36–66)
51
(34–71)
48
(30–64)
49
(28–61)
Participants compliant with gas stove b, % (n) 14% (7) 15% (19) 16% (18) 13% (8) 17% (14) 15% (11) 16% (20) 13% (6)§
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

§

p=0.08