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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of enrolled households

From: Biomass-fuelled improved cookstove intervention to prevent household air pollution in Northwest Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Characteristic

Treatment arm

Both arms (%)

Control (%)

Intervention (%)

Location of cooking quarter

Inside living house

415 (40.8)

327 (32.2)

742 (36.5)

Separate kitchen

601 (59.2)

688 (67.8)

1289 (63.5)

Total

1016 (100)

1015 (100)

2031 (100)

Secondary cookstove type

Traditional

936 (92.1)

924 (91.0)

1860 (91.6)

Improved

80 (7.9)

91 (9.0)

171 (8.4)

Total

1016 (100)

1015 (100)

2031 (100)

Frequency of injera baking event

Everyday

131 (12.9)

134 (13.2)

265 (13.0)

Every other or more days

885 (87.1)

881 (86.8)

1766 (87.0)

Total

1016 (100)

1015 (100)

2031 (100)

PM2.5 concentration in μg/m3 a

850 (358.6)

859 (359.3)

855 (359)

Cluster-level ICC for PM2.5 concentration in μg/m3

0.0317

0.0316

0.0346

  1. aStandard deviations are shown in parentheses.