Updates are available Correction dated 2020-02-05

Article History

Received: 2 July 2019

Accepted: 18 November 2019

First Online: 10 December 2019

Change Date: 5 February 2020

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that part of the Results part of the Abstract text is mentioned with the mistake.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This article has been prepared using secondary data (Household Income and Expenditure Survey of Liberia, 2014) from Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services, available atto anyone registering on World Bank Microdata portal with an email. A more comprehensive version of this study was submitted as a partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MSc in Public Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in September 2018: for this reason, it has been approved by the LSHTM Ethics committee in January 2018. Thus, no ethical approval is required separately for this study.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.