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Table 2 Person-time contributed per village, by treatment category

From: The effects of changes in distance to nearest health facility on under-5 mortality and health care utilization in rural Malawi, 1980–1998

 

No. villages

Mean

SD

Min.

Max.

Total child-months

449

1643

797

32

4493

Child-months prior to new facility

449

1289

893

1

4106

Original treatments

 Child-months after > 10 km to 5-10 km

57

949

737

2

2884

 Child-months after > 10 km to 2-5 km

24

1564

1128

102

4380

 Child-months after > 10 km to < 2 km

9

1327

769

1

2273

 Child-months after 5-10 km to 2-5 km

41

957

625

1

2441

 Child-months after 5-10 km to < 2 km

14

815

470

91

1760

 Child-months after 2-5 km to < 2 km

6

783

547

306

1715

 Year of first birth in village

449

1981

2.3

1980

1997

 Year of last birth in village

449

1998

0.23

1996

1998

  1. Notes: “village” refers to rural enumeration areas in the 2000 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey. Child-months are from children born between 1980 and 1998 to mothers who, at the time of interview, continued to reside in the village where the child was born