Table 3.
Community knowledge of biolarviciding for mosquito control
| Variable | Category | Community knowledge |
df | Chi-square (P-value) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, n (%) | Yes, n (%) | ||||
| Age (years) | 15–24 | 33 (71.7) | 13 (28.3) | 3 | 7.29 (0.063) |
| 25–54 | 222 (80.1) | 55 (19.9) | |||
| 55–64 | 32 (82.0) | 7 (18.0) | |||
| 65+ | 36 (94.7) | 2 (5.3) | |||
| Gender | Male | 142 (76.8) | 43 (23.2) | 1 | 3.53 (0.060) |
| Female | 181 (84.2) | 34 (15.8) | |||
| Marital status | Married | 168 (79.6) | 43 (20.4) | 1 | 0.37 (0.545) |
| Unmarried | 155 (82.0) | 34 (18.0) | |||
| Education | No formal education | 39 (95.1) | 2 (4.9) | 2 | 6.83 (0.033)a |
| Primary education | 178 (80.5) | 43 (19.5) | |||
| Secondary and beyond | 106 (76.8) | 32 (23.2) | |||
| Occupation | Small-scale farmers | 199 (79.9) | 50 (20.1) | 2 | 0.33 (0.848) |
| Formal employed | 21 (80.8) | 5 (19.2) | |||
| Other | 103 (82.4) | 22 (17.6) | |||
| Council | Lindi MC | 79 (79.0) | 21 (21.0) | 3 | 12.14 (0.007)a |
| Nachingwea DC | 71 (71.0) | 29 (29.0) | |||
| Mtwara Mc | 83 (83.0) | 17 (17.0) | |||
| Nanyamba TC | 90 (90.0) | 10 (10.0) | |||
| Total | 323 (80.7) | 77 (19.3) | |||
Abbreviation: df, degrees of freedom.
a
Statistically significant (P < 0.05).