Table 1 |
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Demographic And Other Characteristics Of Survey Respondents – Leogane, Haiti |
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| Demographic Characteristics |
N |
Mean |
Fitted Distribution Information |
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| Distribution |
Goodness of Fit* |
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| Age |
583 |
39.1 |
Gamma, Location 0.31, Scale 1.74, Shape 2.97 |
Chi-Square 87.63 K-S 0.043 A-D 1.50 |
| Monthly Income (Gourdes)** |
346 |
624.0 |
Weibull, Location -1.03, Scale 417.28, Shape 0.60 |
Chi-Square 351.11 K-S 0.205 A-D 19.87 |
| Household Size |
583 |
5.5 |
Gamma, Location 15.98, Scale 11.55, Shape 2.00 |
Chi-Square 1067.81 K-S 0.0867 A-D 4.52 |
| N |
Percent |
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| Sex (percent female) |
583 |
71.4 |
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| House Construction |
583 |
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| Thatch |
4.5 |
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| Wood |
51.1 |
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| Cement |
44.4 |
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| Knowledge and Attitudes |
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| Knowledge of causes |
583 |
22.3 |
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| Belief in magical etiology |
583 |
52.1 |
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| High perceived risk (risky or very risky) |
274 |
37.2 |
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| Familiarity |
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| Know someone with lymphedema |
581 |
84 |
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| Know someone with hydrocele |
580 |
76 |
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| Family member with lymphedema |
577 |
19.2 |
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| Family member with hydrocele |
580 |
10.7 |
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*Distributions fit using Crystal Ball software (Decisioneering, 2000). K-S and A-D refer to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit tests, respectively. **18 Gourdes =US$1 in 1999 |
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Rheingans et al. Filaria Journal 2004 3:2 doi:10.1186/1475-2883-3-2 |
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