Table 5.
Community perception of biolarvicide effectiveness in reducing mosquito abundance
| Variable | Category | Effective? |
df | Chi-square (P-value) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, n (%) | Yes, n (%) | ||||
| Age (years) | 15–24 | 17 (37.0) | 29 (63.0) | 3 | 4.45 (0.217) |
| 25–54 | 144 (52.0) | 133 (48.0) | |||
| 55–64 | 20 (51.3) | 19 (48.7) | |||
| 65+ | 22 (57.9) | 16 (42.1) | |||
| Gender | Male | 99 (53.5) | 86 (46.5) | 1 | 1.05 (0.305) |
| Female | 104 (48.4) | 111 (51.6) | |||
| Marital status | Married | 107 (50.7) | 104 (49.3) | 1 | 0.00 (0.987) |
| Unmarried | 96 (50.8) | 93 (49.2) | |||
| Education | No formal education | 31 (75.6) | 10 (24.4) | 2 | 11.30 (0.004)a |
| Primary education | 106 (48.0) | 115 (52.0) | |||
| Secondary and beyond | 66 (47.8) | 72 (52.2) | |||
| Occupation | Small-scale farmers | 132 (53.0) | 117 (47.0) | 2 | 3.28 (0.194) |
| Formal employed | 9 (34.6) | 17 (65.4) | |||
| Other | 62 (49.6) | 63 (50.4) | |||
| Council | Lindi MC | 32 (32.0) | 68 (68.0) | 3 | 50.52 (<0.001)a |
| Nachingwea DC | 34 (34.0) | 66 (66.0) | |||
| Mtwara Mc | 69 (69.0) | 31 (31.0) | |||
| Nanyamba TC | 68 (68.0) | 32 (32.0) | |||
| Total | 203 (50.7) | 197 (49.3) | |||
Abbreviation: df, degrees of freedom.
a
Statistically significant (P < 0.05).