Table 1.
Summary statistics for malaria cases and weather variables in the nine selected cities in China, 2005–2012
| Province | Anhui | Henan | Yunnan | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nine selected cities | Bengbu | Bozhou | Fuyang | Huaibei | Suzhou | Nanyang | Shangqiu | Baoshan | Dehong |
| Total | 10 910 | 47 056 | 4135 | 15 060 | 14 019 | 4882 | 9009 | 13 659 | 16 157 |
| Average incidence rate (per 10 000) | 4·3 | 12·1 | 0·7 | 8·9 | 3·3 | 0·6 | 1·5 | 6·8 | 16·7 |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Male | 6513 | 26 972 | 2508 | 8943 | 8290 | 3077 | 5064 | 12 515 | 11 713 |
| Female | 4397 | 20 084 | 1627 | 6117 | 5729 | 1805 | 3945 | 1144 | 4444 |
| Age group (years) | |||||||||
| 0–9 | 960 | 5350 | 436 | 1124 | 947 | 394 | 759 | 177 | 1509 |
| 10–19 | 2626 | 9015 | 832 | 2635 | 2628 | 409 | 1357 | 1210 | 2899 |
| 20–29 | 1114 | 4708 | 348 | 1302 | 1217 | 362 | 827 | 4363 | 4646 |
| 30–39 | 1564 | 5993 | 393 | 2631 | 2220 | 671 | 1227 | 4421 | 3605 |
| 40–49 | 1394 | 5659 | 508 | 2060 | 1941 | 892 | 1265 | 2592 | 2103 |
| 50–59 | 1296 | 6173 | 593 | 1706 | 1886 | 1005 | 1298 | 750 | 912 |
| 60–69 | 1079 | 5438 | 547 | 1697 | 1684 | 732 | 1145 | 119 | 326 |
| ≽70 | 877 | 4720 | 478 | 1905 | 1496 | 417 | 1131 | 27 | 157 |
| Occupation | |||||||||
| Farmer | 7076 | 32 466 | 2667 | 10 693 | 10 424 | 866 | 6941 | 4648 | 10 486 |
| School student | 2727 | 9728 | 881 | 3089 | 2524 | 490 | 1529 | 189 | 1468 |
| Children | 474 | 3089 | 280 | 560 | 513 | 234 | 354 | 126 | 1035 |
| Factory worker | 143 | 216 | 63 | 288 | 171 | 70 | 43 | 158 | 582 |
| Rural migrant labourer | 116 | 309 | 81 | 72 | 89 | 51 | 22 | 8272 | 1327 |
| Household duties and unemployed | 64 | 88 | 32 | 75 | 53 | 32 | 9 | 15 | 160 |
| Retiree | 64 | 131 | 37 | 103 | 45 | 35 | 24 | 2 | 79 |
| Teacher | 50 | 211 | 18 | 63 | 66 | 31 | 31 | 11 | 74 |
| Government employee | 25 | 75 | 10 | 25 | 27 | 35 | 21 | 12 | 130 |
| Business service | 19 | 82 | 24 | 17 | 20 | 14 | 17 | 90 | 284 |
| Medical staff | 7 | 89 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| Catering services and food industry | 6 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 29 |
| Seaman and truck driver | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 26 |
| Other | 135 | 553 | 23 | 50 | 76 | 14 | 9 | 86 | 464 |
| Type | |||||||||
| Falciparum malaria | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 10 | 3046 | 4877 |
| Vivax malaria | 9407 | 44 091 | 2390 | 9837 | 13 104 | 4851 | 8937 | 9719 | 10 659 |
| Unspecified | 1496 | 2961 | 1740 | 5222 | 908 | 0 | 62 | 894 | 621 |
| Weather variables (Mean (s.d.)) | |||||||||
| Maximum temperature ( °C) | 20·6 (10·0) | 20·6 (10·2) | 20·7 (10·0) | 20·7 (10·1) | 20·7 (10·1) | 20·8 (9·9) | 20·0 (10·2) | 23·2 (4·0) | 28·0 (3·5) |
| Minimum temperature ( °C) | 12·3 (9·8) | 11·8 (9·8) | 11·1 (10·0) | 11·8 (9·9) | 11·8 (9·9) | 11·8 (9·6) | 10·4 (10·0) | 11·8 (6·1) | 16·9 (5·4) |
| Rainfall (mm) | 2·8 (10·5) | 2·1 (8·6) | 2·3 (9·2) | 2·4 (10·5) | 2·4 (10·5) | 2·2 (8·3) | 2·1 (8·9) | 2·5 (7·5) | 3·7 (9·0) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 68·7 (15·0) | 65·3 (16·4) | 71·6 (15·2) | 66·2 (16·2) | 66·2 (16·2) | 67·4 (15·1) | 68·5 (16·6) | 72·5 (12·0) | 73·5 (10·1) |
| Basic information for the nine cities | |||||||||
| Population (10 000) in 2010 census | 316·4 | 485·1 | 760·0 | 211·4 | 535·3 | 1026·3 | 736·2 | 250·6 | 121·1 |
| GDP per capita ($) in 2016 | 6113 | 1485 | 1118 | 5352 | 2115 | 2828 | 2228 | 1546 | 1726 |