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Table 2 Human and dog demography for each of the study districts.

From: Understanding the incidence and timing of rabies cases in domestic animals and wildlife in south-east Tanzania in the presence of widespread domestic dog vaccination campaigns

District

Human population 2012 (Census year)

Dog number estimates 2012 (95% confidence intervals)

District-level HDR estimate

Median of individual village/ward HDR estimates (Inter-quartile range)

Number of wards or villages within district used for estimation of HDR

Kilwa (excluding island of Songosongo)

187 718

5122 (4434–5810)

36.6

45.6 (24.3–69.6)

101

Lindi Rural

194 143

4483 (3998–4969)

43.3

51.6 (29.4– 83.9)

134

Lindi Urban

78 841

1934 (1769–2099)

40.8

44.7 (35.9–52.1)

18

Liwale

91 380

2192 (1563–2821)

41.7

62.8 (35.7–104.9)

76

Masasi

247 993

6178 (5480–6876)

40.1

42.0 (26.3–73.9)

147

Masasi Township Authority

102 696

4625 (4133–5117)

22.2

22.0 (15.6–23.9)

12

Mtwara Rural

228 003

4133 (3185–5080)

55.2

84.0 (51.2–137.8)

156

Mtwara Urban

108 299

1412 (1182–1642)

76.7

86.6 (53.3–118.7)

15

Nachingwea

178 464

5036 (4852–5221)

35.4

40.7 (24.8–62.1)

118

Nanyumbu

150 857

2436 (2187–2686)

61.9

65.5 (39.4–109.4)

89

Newala

205 492

4025 (3131–4920)

51.1

88.8 (38.8–141.2)

153

Ruangwa

131 080

2831 (2649–3014)

46.3

51.4 (33.2–66.3)

89

Tandahimba

227 514

2123 (1927–2319)

107.2

137.3 (73.6–246.1)

155

  1. Wards were used for estimation of dog numbers within urban districts (Lindi Urban, Mtwara Urban and Masasi Township Authority) and villages used in all other districts. The district-level human: dog ratio (HDR) shown was calculated by dividing the human population estimate in column two with the point estimate for dog numbers in column three.