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Table 1 Patterns of dog ownership across 12 study sites in Tanzania. DOHH = Dog-owning households. Figures in bold are mean and 95% confidence intervals (in parentheses) derived from 10,000 bootstrap samples of the original data

From: A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania

 

Urban

Rural

 

Inland

Coastal

Inland

Coastal

Study site

Koro

Maje

Mbuy

Dund

Ngam

Teme

Bwak

Chin

Kiri

Kira

Kiro

Kisa

% DOHH

16.8

14.1

14.7

10.3

8.1

2.5

22.0

12.7

33.8

18.1

11.5

19.4

 

15.1 (14.1–16.0)

7.1 (6.5–7.8)

23.9 (22.1–25.8)

16.4 (14.8–18.1)

 

11.5 (10.9–12.1)

20.1 (18.9–21.4)

 

13.7 (13.2–14.3)

Households per dog

2.7

2.7

3.6

3.1

8.9

32.6

1.2

3.9

1.4

2.3

3.1

2.3

 

3.0 (2.7–3.2)

5.8 (5.1–6.7)

1.6 (1.5–1.8)

2.5 (2.2–2.8)

 

3.8 (3.6–4.1)

2.0 (1.8–2.1)

 

3.1 (2.9–3.2)

Humans per dog

15.4

8.3

11.1

11.0

78.6

214.6

6.6

17.5

5.3

8.3

11.7

14.0

 

14.4 (13.2–15.7)

27.2 (23.9–31.1)

7.6 (6.8–8.6)

10.8 (9.5–12.3)

 

18.0 (16.8–19.4)

8.9 (8.2–9.7)

 

14.3 (13.5–15.1)