Anambra State Post-Campaign Net Tracking Survey

Figure 11: Net use previous night by age and household coverage
Anambra LLIN campaign evaluation
Figure 11 presents net use of de-jure household members by age groups stratified whether or
not the household had at least one net for every two people or not. It shows that, if there were
enough nets in the household, two thirds of all children under five used a net and this was the
highest rate among all age groups indicating a greater reluctance to use available nets among
older persons. In contrast, if a household had less than one net for every two people (including
no nets at all) the age group with the highest net use was 50-59 year olds with 48.8% .
Figure 12 then summarizes the net use and non-use of the 494 children under 5 in the sample
who also stayed in their house last night. It shows that in addition to those 42% actually using a
net last night, an additional 13.9% could easily have used a net as their family had at least one
net hanging, but it was used by others (11.5%) or not at all (2.4%). Another 20.2% of the children
could have used a net if the existing nets would have been hung so that in total 76.0% could
potentially have used a net and only 24.0% could not as there were no nets available in the
household.
Finally, Table 15 presents the net use at household level. Over the whole sample, more than half
of them had at least one member using a net the previous night, with 53.5% (95%CI 45.8 to
61.0%) and 23.2% (95%CI 17.6 to 30.0%) had all their members using a net. There were no
striking variations by residence type or socio economic group. Considering the 778 households
that retained any net, the proportion with any members using a net increased to 70.5% (95%CI
62.1 to 77.7%) and for all members to 30.9% (95%CI 23.0 to 40.1%). A similar situation was
observed for children under five although rates were generally slightly lower than those for all
members: in 47.8% (95%CI 40.6 to 55.1%) of households with any children under five at least
one was using a net and in 40.2% (95%CI 33.1 to 47.8%) all of them. The small difference
between these two figures indicates that many families with children under five only had one
child of that age, namely 50.7%. In households with any children under five and any nets use
rate by any child was 61.2% (95%CI 52.6 to 69.7%) and by all 54.4% (95%CI 45.5 to 63.0%).
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