High Tuberculosis Disease Burden among Indigenous People of the Paraguayan Chaco and Associated Community Characteristics, 2002–2004: An Ecological Study
Table 2
Description of variables selected from the 2002 Atlas of Indigenous Communities in Paraguay [12].
Continuous variables
Description
Mean and standard deviation
Crowding
Average number of people per household
5.72 ± 1.21
Education
Average number of years of study
2.03 ± 0.91
House type
Percentage of community members who have permanent houses
46.7 ± 32.4
Remoteness
Distance from the department capital in hundreds of kilometers
2.36 ± 1.49
Surface water usage
Percentage of community members who use a tajamar or surface water as a primary water source
58.08 ± 43.08
Wage labor
Percentage of community members engaged in wage labor
43.41 ± 27.39
Binary variables
Description
Proportions (yes : no)
Health post
Does the community have a health post? (yes/no)
47 (45.2%) : 57 (54.8%)
Land ownership
Does the community own its land? (yes/no)
65 (62.5%) : 39 (37.5%)
Nonindigenous
Are there nonindigenous community members? (yes/no)
