| Table 4: Percentage of children under five years old that slept under an insecticide-treated mosquito net during the night preceding the survey, by background characteristics |
| |
Wealth Quintile |
| Country |
Source |
Year |
Total |
|
Male |
Female |
|
Urban |
Rural |
|
Poorest |
Second |
Middle |
Fourth |
Richest |
| Angola |
MICS |
2001 |
2.3 |
|
2.3 |
2.3 |
|
2.9 |
0.9 |
|
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
3.8 |
4.7 |
| Benin |
DHS |
2001 |
7.4 |
|
7.0 |
7.8 |
|
13.5 |
4.4 |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
… |
| Burundi |
MICS |
2000 |
1.3 |
|
1.4 |
1.2 |
|
14.8 |
0.2 |
|
0.0 |
0.7 |
0.2 |
0.5 |
4.7 |
| Cameroon |
MICS |
2000 |
1.3 |
|
1.3 |
1.4 |
|
2.7 |
0.8 |
|
0.5 |
0.1 |
1.1 |
2.5 |
3.1 |
| Central African Republic |
MICS |
2000 |
1.5 |
|
1.3 |
1.8 |
|
2.1 |
1.2 |
|
0.6 |
1.3 |
1.1 |
2.0 |
2.7 |
| Chad |
MICS |
2000 |
0.6 |
|
0.6 |
0.6 |
|
1.3 |
0.4 |
|
0.4 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
0.2 |
2.1 |
| Comoros |
MICS |
2000 |
9.3 |
|
9.3 |
9.3 |
|
16.8 |
7.4 |
|
5.0 |
6.0 |
7.1 |
9.2 |
19.9 |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
MICS |
2000 |
1.1 |
|
1.2 |
1.1 |
|
1.9 |
0.6 |
|
0.3 |
1.0 |
1.6 |
1.2 |
2.1 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo |
MICS |
2001 |
0.7 |
|
0.7 |
0.8 |
|
2.1 |
0.1 |
|
0.0 |
0.1 |
0.2 |
0.4 |
3.1 |
| Equatorial Guinea |
MICS |
2000 |
0.7 |
|
0.9 |
0.6 |
|
3.2 |
0.2 |
|
0.0 |
0.2 |
1.9 |
0.6 |
3.1 |
| Eritrea*** |
DHS |
2002 |
4.2 |
|
4.3 |
4.1 |
|
4.8 |
4.0 |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
… |
| Gambia |
MICS |
2000 |
14.7 |
|
14.4 |
15.2 |
|
7.2 |
19.4 |
|
17.6 |
20.7 |
13.9 |
10.8 |
7.4 |
| Guinea-Bissau |
MICS |
2000 |
7.4 |
|
7.9 |
7.1 |
|
19.0 |
2.5 |
|
2.2 |
2.7 |
4.1 |
9.3 |
23.0 |
| Kenya |
MICS |
2000 |
2.9 |
|
3.0 |
2.8 |
|
3.9 |
2.6 |
|
2.0 |
2.7 |
2.5 |
3.2 |
4.2 |
| Madagascar |
MICS |
2000 |
0.2 |
|
0.2 |
0.2 |
|
0.8 |
0.2 |
|
0.2 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
| Malawi |
DHS |
2000 |
2.9 |
|
… |
… |
|
11.6 |
1.6 |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
… |
| Niger |
MICS |
2000 |
1.0 |
|
0.9 |
1.1 |
|
4.0 |
0.5 |
|
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.1 |
3.7 |
| Rwanda |
MICS |
2000 |
5.0 |
|
4.8 |
5.3 |
|
23.9 |
1.7 |
|
0.3 |
0.6 |
0.5 |
8.4 |
31.9 |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
MICS |
2000 |
22.8 |
|
20.8 |
23.4 |
|
32.4 |
14.4 |
|
9.3 |
7.9 |
12.8 |
12.2 |
26.1 |
| Senegal |
MICS |
2000 |
1.7 |
|
… |
… |
|
1.5 |
1.7 |
|
0.7 |
2.4 |
2.1 |
1.6 |
1.3 |
| Sierra Leone |
MICS |
2000 |
1.5 |
|
1.7 |
1.3 |
|
3.9 |
0.7 |
|
0.2 |
0.3 |
0.6 |
2.0 |
5.3 |
| Somalia |
MICS |
1999 |
0.3 |
|
0.3 |
0.5 |
|
0.4 |
0.6 |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
… |
| Sudan, Northern |
MICS |
2000 |
0.4 |
|
0.4 |
0.5 |
|
0.7 |
0.2 |
|
0.1 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
0.9 |
| Swaziland |
MICS |
2000 |
0.1 |
|
0.1 |
0.1 |
|
0.2 |
0.1 |
|
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.3 |
| Togo |
MICS |
2000 |
2.0 |
|
2.3 |
1.6 |
|
3.7 |
1.4 |
|
0.9 |
0.3 |
1.3 |
2.4 |
7.1 |
| Uganda |
DHS |
2000-01 |
0.2 |
|
… |
… |
|
0.9 |
0.2 |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
… |
| United Republic of Tanzania** |
DHS |
1999 |
2.1 |
|
… |
… |
|
4.8 |
1.3 |
|
… |
… |
… |
… |
… |
| Zambia |
MICS |
1999 |
1.1 |
|
1.3 |
0.8 |
|
1.6 |
0.8 |
|
0.2 |
0.4 |
1.0 |
1.1 |
2.9 |
|
| Africa south of the Sahara |
|
|
|
|
3.7 |
3.8 |
|
6.7 |
2.5 |
|
1.9 |
2.3 |
2.5 |
3.3 |
7.3 |
| Notes: |
| DHS = Demographic and Health Surveys |
| MICS = Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys |
| * Preliminary Data |
| ** Data refers to household level estimates of all children under 5 in the household that used any nets. |
| *** Somalia: Nomadic population excluded |
