Table 2.

Characteristics of CHVs Interviewed

	Kilifi		Bungoma		Total		P value
	n=109	%	n=102	%	n=211	%
Gender
Male	38	34.9	26	25.5	64	30.3	0.139
Female	71	65.1	76	74.5	147	69.7
Age (years) (mean (SD))*	45.5 (10.7)		46.5 (10.0)		46.0 (10.3)		0.458
Highest education level
Primary	52	47.7	9	8.8	61	28.9	<0.001
Secondary	47	43.1	84	82.4	131	62.1
College/university/vocational	10	9.2	9	8.8	19	9
Future career plans
Starting a business	68	62.4	49	48	117	55.5	0.036
Continue working as CHV	47	43.1	21	20.6	68	32.2	<0.001
Other options	25	22.9	28	27.5	53	25.1	0.45
Health-related work	17	15.6	21	20.6	38	18	0.346
Further study	10	9.2	6	5.9	16	7.6	0.367
Become a political leader	2	1.8	1	1	3	1.4	0.6
Marital status
Married/living together	81	74.3	93	91.2	174	82.5
Widowed	12	11	6	5.9	18	8.5	0.007
Never married	6	5.5	2	2	8	3.8
Divorced/separated	10	9.2	1	1	11	5.2
Working before becoming CHV (%)	92	84.4	99	97.1	191	90.5	0.002
Activities engaged before becoming CHV
Business owner	49	53.3	41	41.4	90	47.1	<0.001
Agriculture	12	13	63	63.6	75	39.3
Other	32	34.8	15	15.2	47	24.6
Community/religious leader	5	5.4	4	4	9	4.7
Teaching	2	2.2	5	5.1	7	3.7
Other health professional	1	1.1	5	5.1	6	3.1
Village savings group	1	1.1	0	0	1	0.5
Time taken to farthest household							0.004
<15 min	11	10.1	4	3.9	15	7.1
15 min to <30 min	44	40.4	27	26.5	71	33.6
30 min to <60 min	38	34.9	52	51	90	42.7
1 hour to <2 hours	15	13.8	11	10.8	26	12.3
≥2 hours	1	0.9	8	7.8	9	4.3

*t-test was used to compare the age groups.

CHV, community health volunteer.