Table 4 |
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Reasons for using bed nets for drying fish and the year that this practice was started. |
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| Number |
% |
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| Reasons for using bed nets for drying fish |
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| Fish dry faster on bed nets |
64 |
75.3 |
| Inexpensive |
38 |
44.7 |
| Fish do not stick to bed nets |
25 |
29.4 |
| Fish dry straight on bed nets |
17 |
20.0 |
| No other materials for drying fish |
16 |
18.8 |
| Easy to obtain from NGOs |
15 |
17.6 |
| Have enough bed nets |
14 |
16.5 |
| Original colour of fish is retained on bed nets |
8 |
9.4 |
| Strong |
6 |
7.1 |
| Other |
7 |
8.2 |
| Number of interviewees |
85 |
- |
| Year when started to use bed nets for fish drying |
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| 2008 |
3 |
3.7 |
| 2007 |
32 |
39.0 |
| 2006 |
43 |
52.4 |
| 2005 |
4 |
4.9 |
| Number of interviewees |
82 |
100.0 |
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Minakawa et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:165 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-165 |
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