To identify the diurnal and seasonal variations of daytime scintillation (between 06:00 LT and 18 00 LT), the amplitude scintillation activities are categorized into three groups of seasons, namely, summer (May, June, July, and August), winter (November, December, January, and February), and equinox (September, October, March, and April).
The community health activities are categorized as level one, while the national referral hospitals are level six.
Most activities were categorized as "management," which typically included actions such as capture followed by either euthanasia or transport to less-urbanized areas (such as woodlands and farmlands).
The land primarily used for agricultural activities was categorized under agricultural land.
Ground level activities were categorized into walking, slip or trip, transfers (e.g., sit to stand or moving from bed to chair), falling from furniture (e.g., bed or couch), picking an object up from the ground, or standing task (e.g., washing dishes).
The cumulative number of social activities was categorized in quartiles.
All activities were categorized as either i) preventive or promotive health activities, ii) curative health activities, iii) travel, or iv) other activities (Additional file 1).
The duration of activities is categorized as less than 1 hour, between 1 and 2 hours, between 2 and 4 hours, or more than 4 hours.
Activities were categorized based on the setting (inside vs. outside the home) and social context (group vs. individual or small group).
Individual involvement in social activities was categorized into continuous participation, ceased participation before age 70, initiating participation in older adulthood, never participated, and dropped out before age 70.
Activities were categorized as administration, vaccine and drug administration, family planning, transportation, ANC, childbirth, post-natal care and "other" activities ("other" captured all other services not included in the mentioned activity categories).
