Socio-demographic characteristics of occupational boaters on Lake Albert, Uganda
A response rate of 98% (969/990) was obtained in the endline survey. The majority of the respondents sampled were aged 20–29 years, at baseline, non-intervention (36.1%) vs intervention (41.0%), and at endline, non-intervention (42.1%) vs intervention (42.7%). The largest proportion of the respondents in both arms were fishermen, and many were living with a spouse. In general, most of the respondents had attended formal education while a sizeable proportion was not trained to operate a boat, 