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Table 2 Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents answering the screening questionnaire assessing knowledge and practices related to T. solium and of interviewed pig owners in 60 villages in Burkina Faso, 2011–2012

From: Development of a health education intervention strategy using an implementation research method to control taeniasis and cysticercosis in Burkina Faso

Factor

Value

Percentage [95% CI]a

Screening questionnaire

  

Province (n = 4 777)

Boulkiemdé

49.9 [48.5–51.4]

Sanguié

33.3 [32.0–34.7]

Nayala

16.7 [15.7–17.8]

Age distribution (n = 4 751)

≤15

28.0 [26.8–29.3]

16–40

39.3 [37.9–40.7]

≥41

32.7 [31.4–34.1]

Gender (n = 4 776)

Female

53.8 [52.4–55.2]

Education level (n = 4 774)

Attended school

29.0 [27.7–30.3]

School level (n = 4 775)

Incomplete primary school

87.5 [86.5–88.4]

Completed primary school

7.8 [7.0–8.6]

Completed secondary school

4.6 [4.0–5.2]

Completed college

0.1 [0.06–0.3]

Occupation (n = 4 774)

Farmer

38.2 [36.8–39.6]

Homemaker

35.1 [33.7–36.5]

Student

19.4 [18.2–20.5]

Otherb

7.4 [6.7–8.2]

Pig owner questionnaire

  

Province (n = 2 244)

Boulkiemdé

52.3 [50.2–54.4]

Sanguié

35.0 [33.1–37.0]

Nayala

12.7 [11.3–14.1]

Gender (n = 2 240)

Female

96.6 [95.8–97.3]

  1. abinomial exact 95% CI
  2. be.g. commerce, salaried skills, unemployed