This is not for profit and social service of International Field & Tab. This survey was carried out under the supervision of Mr. Mohsin Muslim (Sociologist and Researcher).

Based upon a Telephonic survey conducted on a random sample of 250 respondents in Lahore

93% of the people are aware of Dengue Fever

A recent survey revealed that 93% of the people living in Lahore are aware of Dengue Fever; followed by 5% not aware and 2% gave no answer. In question that “Is anyone in the family affected by Dengue fever?” Only One third (32%) reported that they/their family is affected. When same question was asked for relative and neighborhood little more than half respondent (54%) reported that there is Dengue fever.

When asked about “reasons of spreading Dengue fever?” 60% people perceived that clean stagnant Water and mosquito (59%) is the main cause, while Dirty Water (28%), Garbage/Pollution (22%) and  others such as hot weather, Rains, Sewerage system (17%).

*This is a multiple answer question so total may exceed 100

In answer to the question on precautionary measures, majority of the respondents are using Mosquito’s killer sprays (68%),  mosquito killer coils (31%), applying mosquito repellent body lotion/oils (20%), liquid electric mosquito repellent (13%) , followed by 23% other options such as don’t store water in house, keep water containers covered and take special precautions at the time of sunrise and sunset.

*This is a multiple answer question so total may exceed 100

When the respondents were ask about the role of Government in tackling the problem, more than half (55%) respondents perceived that government has failed to play its role properly, while 36% responded that a little effort is done by the government and only 9% people stated that  government is doing a lot of efforts.

When ask about “Source of Awareness from Dengue Fever” 75% people claimed that they get to know about Dengue fever through Television, Newspaper (58%) , Relatives (31%), Physician (17%), internet (8%) and others such as SMS, self study, blogs etc (8%).

*This is a multiple answer question so total may exceed 100

Methodology: The survey was carried out on a random sample of 250 respondents in Lahore selected by applying Random Digit Dialing method on Telephone. Survey comprises 50% male and 50% female across all age groups. This survey was carried out during 6^th – 8^th September, 2011. Error Margin on this survey is +/- 6 % at 95% confidence level.

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