Table 2.
Community acceptance of biolarviciding across demographic characteristics
| Variable | Category | Community acceptance |
df | Chi-square (P-value) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, n (%) | Yes, n (%) | ||||
| Age (years) | 15–24 | 5 (10.9) | 41 (89.1) | 3 | 6.95 (0.073) |
| 25–54 | 59 (21.3) | 218 (78.7) | |||
| 55–64 | 4 (10.3) | 35 (89.7) | |||
| 65+ | 11 (29.0) | 27 (71.0) | |||
| Gender | Male | 43 (23.2) | 142 (76.8) | 1 | 2.65 (0.104) |
| Female | 36 (16.7) | 179 (83.3) | |||
| Marital status | Married | 48 (22.8) | 163 (77.2) | 1 | 2.53 (0.111) |
| Unmarried | 31 (16.4) | 158 (83.6) | |||
| Education | No formal education | 10 (24.4) | 31 (75.6) | 2 | 4.77 (0.092) |
| Primary education | 35 (15.8) | 186 (84.2) | |||
| Secondary and beyond | 34 (24.6) | 104 (75.4) | |||
| Occupation | Small-scale farmers | 46 (18.5) | 203 (81.5) | 2 | 0.81 (0.666) |
| Formal employed | 5 (19.2) | 21 (80.8) | |||
| Other | 28 (22.4) | 97 (77.6) | |||
| Council | Lindi MC | 20 (20.0) | 80 (80.0) | 3 | 1.56 (0.668) |
| Nachingwea DC | 16 (16.00) | 84 (84.0) | |||
| Mtwara Mc | 23 (23.00) | 77 (77.0) | |||
| Nanyamba TC | 20 (20.00) | 80 (80.0) | |||
| Total | 79 (19.8) | 321 (80.3) | |||
Abbreviation: df, degrees of freedom.