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. 2019 May 14;18:172. doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2800-4

Box 1 Definitions of key terms related to ownership and utilization of bed nets

Proportion of households with at least one ITN
Numerator: Number of households surveyed with at least one ITN
Denominator: Total number of households surveyed
Proportion of households with at least one ITN for every two people
Numerator: Number of households surveyed with at least one ITN for every two people
Denominator: Total number of households surveyed
Proportion of the population with access to an ITN in their household
Numerator: Total number of individuals who can sleep under an ITN if each ITN in the household is used by two people
Denominator: Total number of individuals who spent the previous night in the surveyed households
Proportion of the population that reported sleeping under an ITN the previous night
Numerator: Number of individuals who reported sleeping under an ITN the previous night
Denominator: Total number of individuals who spent the previous night in the surveyed households
Migrant population
Migrant population, according to the survey, was defined as a mobile person of any age who temporarily lives in the selected townships for less than 3 years duration of stay and not registered as a native villager in the village census