Table 1.
Scoring system for social contact patterns in Bangladesh
| Frequency score: 3 = this type of contact occurs daily | |
| 2 = this type of contact occurs weekly | |
| 1 = this type of contact occurs monthly or less | |
| 0 = this type of contact occurs never | |
| Level 1. Social contact in the home | |
| • Crowding: number of household members/ number of sleeping rooms | |
| Crowding score (min = 1, max = 9) | |
| • Visitors to the house at daytime: intensity score = 2 | |
| ○ Neighbours | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ People from village | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Relatives from outside village | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Others from outside village | 2 × frequency score |
| • Visitors stay overnight: intensity score = 3 | |
| ○ Visitors stay overnight | 3 × frequency score |
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ | |
| Total level 1 (min = 0, max = 42) | |
| Level 2. Social contacts within the neighbourhood | |
| • Outdoor meetings at: intensity score = 1 | |
| ○ Workplace | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ Market | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ Yard of neighbours/friends | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ Outdoor gathering/religious festival/fair | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ Outdoor wedding ceremony | 1 × frequency score |
| • Indoor meetings: intensity score = 2 | |
| ○ Inside house or shop | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Inside building for work/school | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Inside mosque or temple | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Inside building for regular meeting | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Special occasions in someone's house | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Indoor wedding, gathering or fair | 2 × frequency score |
| ○ Indoor religious festival | 2 × frequency score |
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ | |
| Total level 2 (min = 0, max = 57) | |
| Level 3. Social contacts outside the neighbourhood | |
| • Social contacts outside neighbourhood: intensity score = 1 | |
| ○ In nearby villages | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ In nearest city | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ In other cities in Bangladesh | 1 × frequency score |
| ○ In other countries | 1 × frequency score |
| • Stay overnight in another area: intensity score = 3 | |
| ○ Staying overnight | 3 × frequency score |
| ○ Share room with more than 10 people | yes = 5, no = 0 |
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ | |
| Total level 3 (min 0, max 26) | |