Pesticides

Swept house dust

Vacuumed house
dust

Comparing Prevalence
p value1 

Agreement of
Prevalence2 

Propoxur

9.8

4.6

0.002

0.28

Transfluthrin

4.4

3.1

0.3323

0.39

Bioallethrin

25.0

25.8

0.740

0.45

Cyfluthrin

4.1

2.6

0.1803

0.44

Cypermethrin

6.2

4.9

 0.3833

 0.48
1McNemar test
2Kappa (p < 0.001 for all)
3Exact test using binomial distribution.
Table 3: Prevalence (%) of pesticides in swept house dust and vacuumed house dust (N=388).
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