Table 1.

Epidemiologically important factors/variables hypothesized to modify the risk for dog-mediated rabies in Thailand. The data time period, sources, and the administrative level at which data were available are listed.

Variable	Administrative level⁎ of data availability	Year/s of data availability	Source of data
Number of human rabies cases	Sub-district level	2013–2016	Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, 2017 www.boe.moph.go.th
Number of animal rabies cases	Sub-district level	2012–2017	Department of Livestock Development, 2017 http://www.dld.go.th/th/index.php/th/
Human population	Sub-district level	2015	Worldpop, 2018 www.worldpop.org
Number of dog attacks/bites	Sub-district level	2013–2017	Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, 2017 www.boe.moph.go.th; DDC, 2018
Number of garbage dumps	District level	2016	Pollution Control Department, 2016
Number of Buddhist temples	District level	2017	Dhammathai, 2017 http://www.dhammathai.org/indexeng.php
Number of animal vaccines distributed	Provincial level	2016	Department of Livestock Development, 2016 http://www.dld.go.th/th/index.php/th/
Number of human post exposure prophylaxis	Provincial level	2014–2018	Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, 2018 https://apps.boe.moph.go.th/boeeng/about_us.php
Human poverty index (Unit: number of poor people in 1000 people)	Provincial level	2006–2015	National Statistical Office, 2018 http://web.nso.go.th/
Stray animal densities: dogs and cats	Provincial level	2016	Department of Livestock Development, 2016 http://www.dld.go.th/th/index.php/th/

^⁎Administrative levels: Thailand is divided into 77 provinces, each of which is further subdivided into districts 928 districts, and these are further divided into 7425 sub-districts.