Baseline characteristics of 10,042 contacts by participants in a diary study in the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kenya.

╞Missing records as a proportion of the total contacts 10,042): Relationship to participant (198, 2.0%); Sleep in same room (22, 0.8%); Ever met the contact before (298, 3.0%); Frequency of meeting (38, 0.4%).$While 63% of contacts with family members (parents, spouses, children and siblings),only 28% live in the same household. Members of the same family could be living in different households and share a common compound (homestead).□Frequency of meeting: daily (on a day-to-day basis); regularly (more than four times a week); often (once or twice a week); rarely (once or twice a month).