Table 1.
Socio-demographic factors of respondents and their levels of knowledge regarding mosquito LSM methods in Nthache area, Mwanza district
| Characteristics | N = 479 n (%) |
|---|---|
| Sex | |
| Male | 140 (29.2) |
| Female | 339 (70.8) |
| Age-group (years)a | |
| ≤ 35 years-old | 273 (57.0) |
| > 35 years-old | 202 (42.2) |
| Marital status | |
| Married | 379 (79.1) |
| Single | 22 (4.6) |
| Widowed | 41 (8.6) |
| Divorced/separated | 37 (7.7) |
| Education status | |
| Primary | 307 (64.1) |
| None | 111 (23.2) |
| Secondary | 56 (11.7) |
| Informal/pre-primary | 5 (1.0) |
| Pregnancy status (women-of-child-bearing-age between 15–49 years-old) | N = 276 |
| Not-pregnant | 258 (93.5) |
| Pregnant | 18 (6.5) |
| Occupation | |
| Crop farming | 286(59.7) |
| Mixed-farming (crop and livestock)/pastoralist | 93 (19.4) |
| Business/self-employed | 42 (8.8) |
| Employee | 25 (5.2) |
| Housewife | 22 (4.6) |
| Unemployed/student | 7 (1.5) |
| Other | 4 (0.8) |
| Household ownership | |
| Owned | 466 (97.3) |
| Rented | 13 (2.7) |
| Household floor | |
| Natural/earth | 398 (83.1) |
| Cement/tiles | 81 (16.9) |
| Household roof | |
| Grass/thatch | 292 (61.0) |
| Iron-sheets | 187 (39.0) |
| Household wall | |
| Brickwall | 344 (71.8) |
| Mudwall | 135 (28.2) |
| Household energy used | |
| Firewood | 433 (90.4) |
| Charcoal | 46 (9.6) |
| Levels of knowledge regarding mosquito larval source management methods | |
| High | 309 (64.5) |
| Low | 170 (35.5) |
aAge of 4 (0.8 %) respondents were missing in the dataset