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Table 2 Statistics of contacts within households

From: Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors

Age class

Number of individuals

Total number of contacts

Number of daily contacts per individual (95% RR)

Average degree ∗

0-5

15

10,804

240 (80-477)

17.5

6-14

26

15,462

198 (21-576)

18.3

15-19

6

607

34 (9-92)

11.7

20-49

23

4,835

70 (8-231)

12.2

≥50

5

717

48 (9-93)

12.6

Gender

    

Male

25

13,933

186 (8-578)

15.0

Female

50

18,492

123 (8-365)

15.5

Total

75

32,425

144 (8-496)

15.3

  1. ∗Arithmetic mean degree (see Data and methods section).