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Table 2 Household size by primary households and neighbors’ households

From: Assessing the use of the neighborhood method to estimate the prevalence of child separation: a pilot in North Kivu, DRC

 

Primary households (n = 522)

Neighbors’ households (n = 1011)

 
 

Mean

95 % CI

Mean

95 % CI

p-value

Current household size

6.43

(5.95–6.95)

5.43

(4.70–6.27)

<0.0001

 in villages

6.70

(6.46–6.95)

5.52

(4.80–6.36)

<0.0001

 in camps

5.38

(4.25–6.81)

4.60

(3.80–5.56)

0.0010

Current number of children

4.21

(3.87–4.58)

3.31

(2.08–5.27)

<0.0001

 in villages

4.37

(4.17–4.57)a

3.41

(2.83–4.11)

<0.0001

 in camps

3.59

(3.16–4.03)

2.98

(2.32–3.83)

<0.0001

  1. aThe Poisson regression using the GEE method to adjust for clustering between neighbors did not converge