Table 2.
Sociodemographic Variables and Malaria Infection among Children Under 5 Years, in Arba Minch Zuria District, South Ethiopia, 2017
| Characteristics | n | Positive n (%) | P. falciparum n(%) | P. vivax n (%) | Mixed n(%) |
Negative n (%) | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Male | 157 | 32 (20.4) | 17 (53.1) | 14 (43.7) | 1 (3.1) | 125 (79.6) | 0.5 |
| Female | 114 | 28 (24.5) | 13 (46.4) | 15 (53.5) | – | 86 (75.5) | ||
| Age, months | 12–24 | 91 | 12 (13.1) | 9 (75.0) | 3 (25.0) | – | 79 (86.8) | 0.04 |
| 25–36 | 87 | 22 (25.3) | 10 (45.4) | 11 (50.0) | 1 (1.15) | 65 (74.7) | ||
| 37–59 | 93 | 26 (27.9) | 12 (46.0) | 14 (53.8) | – | 67 (72.0) | ||
| Residence | Urban | 113 | 20 (18.5) | 12 (60.0) | 9 (45.0) | – | 93 (41.7) | 0.1 |
| Rural | 158 | 40 (25.3) | 18 (45.0) | 11 (27.5) | 1 (2.5) | 119 (58.3) | ||
| Total | 271 | 60 (21.1) | 30 (50.0) | 29 (48.4) | 1 (1.66) | 211 (77.9) | ||