Assessment of Risk Factors Associated with Malaria Transmission in Tubu Village, Northern Botswana

Table 2

Associations between various risk factors for malaria transmission in Tubu village determined by the Fischer and Pearson 𝜒² test.

Risk factor	P value
Malaria episode versus period outdoors	0.051*
Household income versus malaria episode	0.018**
Malaria episode versus farming status	0.391
Malaria episode versus distance from water body	0.036**
Eave size versus mosquito bites	0.887^+
Eave size versus frequency of mosquito bites	0.900
Eave size versus time of mosquito bites	0.746
Malaria episode versus number of nets possessed	0.496

∗∗Significant association.
*Borderline association.
⁺Obtained from Fischer’s exact test; the rest were obtained from Pearson’s 𝜒² test.