Estimating the economic and social consequences for patients diagnosed with human African trypanosomiasis in Muchinga, Lusaka and Eastern Provinces of Zambia (2004–2014)

Table 2 Patients’ monthly household gross cash income by district

District	Number of patients	Median US$	Inter-quartile range US$	Minimum US$	Maximum US $
Chama^a	22	63.2	31.8–174.6	10.3	1111.1
Mambwe^b	3	31.8	–	31.8	39.7
Mpika	28	15.6	9.9–17.5	4.8	79.4
Rufunsa^c	10	39.7	15.9–17.4	9.5	317.5
Total	63	63.2	15.4–63.5	4.8	1111.1

^a One household had a monthly income of $ 1111.11, excluding this outlier would have reduced the average income for Chama to $161.7 and for the whole dataset to $61.2. For the whole dataset, 10 households had incomes over $100, of these 5 were over $300 and 8 were in Chama District and 2 in Rufunsa, thus none in Mambwe or Mpika
^b No interquartile range is presented for Mambwe as there were only 3 patients
^c Household cash income could not be obtained for one patient

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