Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, school-based malaria SBCC target districts, Jimma Zone, Ethiopia, 2017–2019 (baseline, n = 762; end line, n = 759).

Socio-demographic characteristics		Repeated surveys
		Baseline		End-line		Combined
		No	%	No	%	No	%
Districts (Sampled people)	Botor-Tolay [HH = 239]	699	17.4	606	16.1	1305	16.8
	Nono-Benja [HH = 248]	704	17.5	651	17.3	1355	17.4
	Limmu-Kossa [HH = 264]	589	14.6	615	16.4	1204	15.5
	Gera [HH = 333]	849	21.1	759	20.2	1608	20.7
	Shebe-Sombo [HH = 437]	1184	29.4	1129	30.0	2313	29.7
	Total [HH = 1521]	4025	100	3760	100	7785	100
Sex of respondent	Male	378	49.8	439	57.9	817	53.7
	Female	384	50.2	320	42.1	704	46.3
Sex of HH head	Male	679	89.2	690	90.9	1369	90.0
	Female	83	10.8	69	9.1	152	10.0
Marital status	Married	676	89.2	642	85.0	1318	87.1
	Divorced	26	3.4	31	4.1	57	3.8
	Widowed	41	5.4	29	3.8	70	4.6
	Others	15	2.0	53	7.2	68	4.5
Education	Cannot read or write	402	52.8	313	41.2	715	47.0
	Read & write	81	10.6	80	10.6	161	10.6
	Primary school	216	28.3	251	33.1	467	30.7
	Secondary school	60	7.9	106	14.0	166	10.9
	College and above	3	0.4	5	1.1	8	0.5
Religion	Muslim	465	61.0	423	55.9	888	58.5
	Orthodox	194	25.5	230	30.4	424	27.9
	Protestant	103	13.5	104	13.7	207	13.6
Ethnicity	Oromo	593	77.8	576	76.0	1169	76.9
	Amhara	122	16.0	138	18.2	260	17.1
	Others	45	5.9	54	7.0	99	6.5
Proportions of	HHs with school child	535	70.3	458	60.4	986	65.2
	<5 years population	631	15.6	584	15.5	1215	15.6
	*PW/ 15–49 years females	26	2.8	31	3.4	57	3.1

* PW: Pregnant Women