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more than three years old. Eight‐five percent (85.0%) of all households owned at least one net thatwas not more than three years old. Duration of ownership of mosquito bednets did not differbetween HIV‐affected and HIV‐unaffected households.14.8 CHILDREN’S LIVING ARRANGEMENTS AND ORPHANHOODThis section describes findings from the 2007 KAIS on living arrangements of children under the age18 of years including those who lived with both, neither, or either biological parent. Table 14.8 alsoprovides information on whether either or both biological parents of children under 18 years of agewere alive or had died.For the purpose of this survey, an orphan is defined as any child under the age of 18 years whosemother, father, or both parents had died.Table 14.8a Living arrangements and survival status of parents for children under 18 years of age,Kenya 2007. 3,4Livingwith bothparents(%)Total 52.3 25.5 5.8 2.7 1.1 8.5 1.2 1.1 1.73 Column categories are mutually exclusive; that is, a child was only counted in one column category within each subsetof background characteristic.4 Data were missing on survival status and/or place of residence of mother, father or both for 2.5% of children; thesechildren were excluded from this analysis.Living withmother onlyFatheralive(%)Fatherdead(%)Living withfather onlyMotheralive(%)Motherdead(%)Not living with either parentBothalive(%)Motherdead(%)Fatherdead(%)Bothdead(%)BackgroundcharacteristicsAge group (years)0-4 57.5 31.3 2.6 1.8 0.5 5.3 0.6 0.4 0.155-9 52.5 24.6 5.1 2.8 1.2 8.3 0.9 1.1 1.310-14 47.2 21.7 8.2 3.1 1.5 9.9 1.9 1.5 2.715-17 45.3 14.2 9.8 3.2 2.4 12.6 2.2 1.8 4.1