Table 2.
Characteristics of cases and contacts (13th April – August 31st 2015)
| Paper Daily Reporting Form | ECT Smartphone App | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | |
| Characteristic | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) |
| Total | 25a | 408 | 18b | 646 |
| Age | ||||
| < 5 yrs | 4 (16%) | 51 (13%) | 2 (13%) | 123 (19%) |
| 5–14 yrs | 2 (8%) | 119 (29%) | 2 (13%) | 141 (22%) |
| 15 – 44 yrs | 13 (52%) | 188 (47%) | 9 (56%) | 272 (42%) |
| ≥ 45 yrs | 6 (24%) | 46 (11%) | 3 (19%) | 110 (17%) |
| Median (IQR) | 26 (20–44) | 18 (7–30) | 28.5 (18–40) | 20 (6–35) |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 10 (40%) | 205 (50%) | 9 (50%) | 317 (49%) |
| Female | 15 (60%) | 203 (50%) | 9 (50%) | 329 (51%) |
| Mortality status | ||||
| Alive | 21 (84%) | 407c (100%) | 11 (61%) | 646 (100%) |
| Dead | 4 (16%) | – | 7 (39%) | – |
| Chiefdom | ||||
| 1 | – | – | 5 (28%) | 72 (11%) |
| 2 | 24 (96%) | 376 (92%) | 4 (22%) | 70 (11%) |
| 3 | – | – | – | 10d (2%) |
| 4 | – | – | 1 (6%) | 65 (10%) |
| 5 | – | – | 5 (28%) | 159 (25%) |
| 6 | – | – | 3 (17%) | 270 (42%) |
| 7 | 1 (4%) | 32 (8%) | – | – |
aFour cases followed using the paper Daily Reporting Form had no contacts
b Data on age and sex were available for only 16 cases (not for two ‘secret burials’)
c Data on 407 contacts was available. All contacts were alive
dThe 10 contacts in this Chiefdom came from a case that occurred in Chiefdom 2