Table 1.

Participants’ characteristics

	UMIS (2009)	UMIS (2014)
	(n=2501)	(n=2815)
Child malaria positive	1002 (40.1%)	528 (18.8%)
Children’s age (months)	27.5 (16.9)	30.1 (17.0)
Mothers’ age (years)	26.2 (4.6)	29.8 (4.8)
Mothers’ year of schooling	4.8 (3.6)	4.8 (4.1)
Has at least 7 years of schooling	759 (30.3%)	891 (31.7%)
Child contracts moderate anaemia	1064 (42.6%)	799 (28.4%)
Owned mosquito net last night	1689 (67.5%)	2725 (96.8%)
All children aged <5 years slept under net	922 (37.0%)	2076 (74.0%)

Mothers were aged ≥18 years at the time of the survey, born between 1974 and 1991, and whose children had valid results for microscopy malaria testing. Data shown as n (%) or mean (SD).

UMIS, Uganda Malaria Indicator Surveys.