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Table 1 Comparison of basic characteristics of study respondents in ratnapura district

From: Reconstitution of oral antibiotic suspensions for paediatric use in households: a cross-sectional study among caregivers of 3–5-year-old children from a selected district, Sri Lanka

Basic Characteristics

Study Sample -%

District -%a

Ethnicity

Sinhala

90.6

87.1

Tamil

7.4

10.7

Muslim

2.0

2.1

Sector/ Geographical region

Rural

84.9

81.7

Urban

10.9

9.1

Estate

4.2

9.2

Education

No schooling/Grades 1–5

3.7

5.7

Grades 6 to 10

22.1

26

Grade 11 or above

74.3

68.2

Economically

active or not

Economically Active

27.9

34.7*

Economically Inactive

72.1

65.3*

  1. a Out of total population in the district
  2. *As 96.8% of the respondents were females, “economically active or not proportion of females” in the National Census on Population and Housing, 2012 was used instead of proportion out of the total population [27]
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