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. 2019 Nov 25;13(11):e0007488. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007488

Table 1. Summary characteristics for 4,104 school-attending children in coastal Kenya, 2015.

Characteristics No. or Mean % or SD
Individual level (n = 4,104)
Age (years) 9.46 2.65
Being girls 2,129 51.88
Observed wearing shoes 1,443 35.16
Reported deworming in past year 2,219 54.07
Reported household access to toilet 2,255 54.95
Reported improved water source 2,216 54.00
Missing 13 0.32
Time to fetch water, < 30 min 3,344 81.48
Missing 14 0.34
Covered floor 833 20.30
Household wealth quintile
Most poor, quintile 1 1,190 29.00
Quintiles 2–4 2,158 52.58
Least poor, quintile 5 756 18.42
Distance to school (km) (n = 3,906) 2.25 5.82
Village level (n = 712)
Proportion reporting toilet access 0.53 0.31
Urbanization
Rural 545 76.54
Periurban 141 19.80
Urban 26 3.65
Aridity index
Dry sub-humid (> 0.5–0.65) 284 39.89
Humid (> 0.65) 428 60.11
Soil sand content ≥ 62% 256 35.96
School level (n = 349)
Usable toilets per pupil 0.03 0.02
Pupils per usable toilet 57.79 47.35
Total enrolment 479.47 270.67
Urbanization
Rural 234 67.05
Periurban 84 24.07
Urban 31 8.88
Aridity index
Dry sub-humid (> 0.5–0.65) 130 37.25
Humid (> 0.65) 219 62.75
Soil sand content ≥ 62% 126 36.10