Table 2. Respondents characteristics of the Ebola knowledge, attitude and prevention practice surveys, Sierra Leone, 2014–2015.
| Respondents’ characteristics | Number of survey respondents (% of observations)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survey date |
Total (n = 10 603) | ||||
| August 2014 (n = 1413) | October 2014 (n = 2086) | December 2014 (n = 3540) | July 2015 (n = 3564) | ||
| Region of residence | |||||
| Western | 431 (30.5) | 522 (25.0) | 812 (22.9) | 798 (22.4) | 2563 (24.2) |
| Northern | 435 (30.8) | 633 (30.4) | 1247 (35.2) | 1740 (48.8) | 4055 (38.2) |
| Eastern | 269 (19.0) | 420 (20.1) | 919 (26.0) | 471 (13.2) | 2079 (19.6) |
| Southern | 278 (19.7) | 511 (24.5) | 562 (15.9) | 555 (15.6) | 1906 (18.0) |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 749 (53.4) | 970 (46.6) | 1809 (51.1) | 1774 (49.8) | 5302 (50.1) |
| Female | 655 (46.6) | 1113 (53.4) | 1731 (48.9) | 1790 (50.2) | 5289 (49.9) |
| Age, years | |||||
| 15–24 | 511 (36.7) | 741 (35.6) | 1177 (33.3) | 1203 (33.8) | 3632 (34.4) |
| ≥ 25 | 880 (63.3) | 1340 (64.4) | 2362 (67.7) | 2362 (66.2) | 6942 (66.6) |
| Education | |||||
| None | 360 (26.0) | 553 (26.7) | 1194 (33.8) | 1424 (40.0) | 3531 (33.5) |
| Some primary | 188 (13.5) | 360 (17.4) | 677 (19.1) | 739 (20.8) | 1964 (18.6) |
| Secondary or higher | 840 (60.5) | 1157 (55.9) | 1668 (47.1) | 1394 (39.2) | 5059 (47.9) |
| Religion | |||||
| Islam | 901 (64.2) | 1342 (64.5) | 2335 (66.0) | 2459 (71.5) | 7127 (67.3) |
| Christianity | 501 (35.7) | 736 (35.4) | 1200 (33.9) | 1015 (28.5) | 3452 (33.6) |
| Other | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (0.1) |
| Occupation | |||||
| Farmer | 136 (9.7) | 242 (11.6) | 891 (25.2) | 912 (25.6) | 2181 (20.7) |
| Small trader | 272 (19.3) | 395 (19.0) | 614 (17.3) | 735 (20.6) | 2016 (19.0) |
| Student | 360 (25.5) | 556 (26.7) | 795 (22.5) | 723 (20.3) | 2434 (23.1) |
| Private business employee | 93 (6.6) | 170 (8.2) | 286 (8.1) | 268 (7.5) | 817 (7.7) |
| Teacher | 99 (7.0) | 154 (7.4) | 187 (5.3) | 144 (4.0) | 584 (5.5) |
| Health worker | 26 (1.8) | 42 (2.0) | 40 (1.1) | 32 (0.9) | 140 (1.3) |
| Other government worker | 86 (6.1) | 92 (4.4) | 153 (4.3) | 98 (2.8) | 429 (4.1) |
| Driver | 12 (0.9) | 34 (1.6) | 51 (1.4) | 47 (1.3) | 144 (1.4) |
| Bike rider | 21 (1.5) | 20 (1.0) | 50 (1.4) | 58 (1.6) | 149 (1.4) |
| Skilled labourer | 56 (4.0) | 104 (5.0) | 111 (3.1) | 113 (3.2) | 384 (3.6) |
| Retired | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 51 (1.4) | 51 (0.5) |
| Unemployed | 208 (14.8) | 268 (12.9) | 356 (10.0) | 351 (9.9) | 1183 (11.2) |
| Other | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 23 (0.7) | 23 (0.2) |
a The total number of missing values for all demographic characteristics was less than 1% of all responses: there were 12 missing responses for sex, 29 for age, 49 for education, 20 for religion and 68 for occupation.