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Table 2 Installation of cooling appliances

From: Population at high-risk of indoor heatstroke: the usage of cooling appliances among urban elderlies in Japan

 

Sapporo

Sendai

Saitama

Tokyo’s 23 wards

Chiba

Kobe

Kitakyushu

Nagasaki

All

Sitting room

 Electric fan (%)

62.1

53.7

51.7

55.4*

53.6*

59.9

49.2

55.9*

54.4*

 Air conditioner (%)

18.0

73.5

88.7*

90.6*

89.9

86.6

87.0

88.2

78.2*

 No cooling appliance (%)

27.6

7.0

2.4

1.7

2.9

2.0

2.3

2.2

6.0

Bedroom

 Electric fan (%)

39.7

54.3*

42.7*

47.9*

53.3

54.2*

53.1*

50.5

45.8*

 Air conditioner (%)

3.4

36.3

76.7

72.3

64.9

69.5

63.3

64.5

61.7*

 No cooling appliance (%)

58.0

20.4

7.6

7.5

8.7

10.7

9.0

9.7

15.6

Sitting cum bedroom

 Electric fan (%)

63.7

69.5

62.2

70.9

63.2

73.4

71.6*

93.8

65.6

 Air conditioner (%)

10.3

61.0

87.4

89.8

74.7

79.7

81.5

78.1

78.1

 No cooling appliance (%)

32.2

6.1

2.4

1.6

4.6

2.4

1.2

0.0

5.0

  1. * Statistically significant (p < 0.05) difference between self-reporting and surrogate reporting by χ2 test/Fisher’s exact test for 2 × 2 table