Table 2.

Primary and Secondary Fuels Use for Cooking (Including Stove and Location of Cooking), and Lighting Stratified by Rural and Peri-Urban Contexts.

Characteristic	Total sample (n = 1577)		Rural Buea (n = 243)		Peri-urban Limbe (n = 1334)		p value
	No	%	No	%	No	%
Cooking
Primary cooking fuel
No cooking	8	0.5	2	0.8	6	0.5
Electricity	4	0.3	1	0.4	3	0.2
LPG	806	51.1	38	15.6	758	57.6
Kerosene	45	2.9	5	2.1	40	3.0
Charcoal	36	2.3	1	0.4	35	2.6
Wood	641	40.7	196	80.7	445	33.4
Sawdust	35	2.2	0	0	35	2.6
Other	2	0.1	0	0	2	0.2	< 0.0005
Secondary cooking fuel
No other fuel	373	23.9	123	51.5	250	18.9
Electricity	7	0.5	0	0	7	0.5
LPG	314	20.1	35	14.6	279	21.1
Natural gas	4	0.3	2	0.8	2	0.2
Kerosene	178	11.4	38	15.9	140	10.6
Charcoal	273	17.5	8	3.4	265	20.0
Wood	378	24.2	30	12.6	348	26.3
Sawdust	32	2.1	3	1.3	29	2.2
Other	4	0.3	0	0	4	0.3	< 0.0005
Exclusive usage of LPG
All cooking with LPG	130	8.2	3	1.2	127	9.5
LPG use (not exclusive)	986	62.5	70	28.8	916	68.7
No LPG	461	29.2	170	70.0	291	21.8	< 0.0005
Location of cooking
In house	844	53.8	54	22.4	790	59.5
Separate building	594	37.9	79	74.3	415	31.3
Outside	131	8.4	8	3.3	123	9.3	< 0.0005
Separate room for cooking	611	72.4	33	61.1	578	73.2	< 0.0005
Lighting
No lighting	5	0.3	3	1.2	2	0.2
Grid electricity	1280	81.2	197	81.1	1083	81.2
Mini-grid electricity	266	16.9	25	10.3	241	18.1
Solar	1	0.1	1	0.4	0	0
Solar lantern	3	0.2	1	0.4	2	0.2
Flashlight	3	0.2	2	0.8	1	0.1
Kerosene lamp	15	1.0	12	4.9	3	0.2
Candle	3	0.2	1	0.4	2	0.2
Other	1	0.1	1	0.4	0	0	< 0.0005

Italic values indicate statistical significance assessed at p < 0.05.