Table 3.
Sociodemographic characteristics of focus group participants in RES and PHS villages
| RES villages | PHS villages | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | |
| Age-groups (years) | ||||||
| < 25 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 25–34 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 35–44 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 45–54 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| ≥ 55 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| Education | ||||||
| No formal education | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 17 |
| Did not complete grade 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Completed grade 4 | 23 | 21 | 44 | 17 | 13 | 30 |
| Completed form 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| College education | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Religion | ||||||
| Catholics | 16 | 23 | 39 | 15 | 21 | 36 |
| Other Christians | 10 | 9 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| Moslems | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married | 30 | 21 | 51 | 25 | 14 | 39 |
| Other relationship | 3 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 13 | 17 |
| Occupation | ||||||
| Subsistence farmers | 30 | 29 | 59 | 24 | 27 | 51 |
| Fishing | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Ethnic groups | ||||||
| Wasukuma | 20 | 32 | 52 | 22 | 15 | 37 |
| Other | 13 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 20 |
| 23 | 21 | 44 | 17 | 13 | 30 | |
PHS = persistent hotspot; RES = responding.