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Table 1 Demographic And Other Characteristics Of Survey Respondents – Leogane, Haiti

From: Willingness to pay for prevention and treatment of lymphatic filariasis in Leogane, Haiti

Demographic Characteristics

N

Mean

Fitted Distribution Information

   

Distribution

Goodness of Fit*

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

  

Sex (percent female)

583

71.4

  

House Construction

583

   

   Thatch

 

4.5

  

   Wood

 

51.1

  

   Cement

 

44.4

  

Knowledge and Attitudes

    

Knowledge of causes

583

22.3

  

Belief in magical etiology

583

52.1

  

High perceived risk (risky or very risky)

274

37.2

  

Familiarity

    

   Know someone with lymphedema

581

84

  

   Know someone with hydrocele

580

76

  

   Family member with lymphedema

577

19.2

  

   Family member with hydrocele

580

10.7

  
  1. *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