TABLE 2.
Predictors and mediators by type of household (percentage, unless otherwise indicated), MMWL panel.
| Remittances (transfers received) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictors and mediators | Non-migrant’s HH | All migrant’s HH | Migrant’s HH with no or few transfers | Migrant’s HH with some transfers | Migrant’s HH with large transfers | Not-married woman’s HH |
| HH’s food security status | ||||||
| HH is food secure | 19.5 | 24.1 | 17.0 | 25.0 | 26.5 | 9.9 |
| HH is somewhat food insecure | 50.4 | 52.2 | 54.3 | 47.6 | 56.1 | 42.2 |
| HH is very food insecure | 30.1 | 23.7 | 28.7 | 27.4 | 17.4 | 47.9 |
| Woman’s mean number of days per week of protein intakea | 1.6 (1.5) | 1.7 (1.5) | 1.3 (1.4) | 1.6 (1.4) | 2.0 (1.6) | 1.1 (1.4) |
| HH’s agricultural resources and investment | ||||||
| HH’s farm size (hectares)a | 1.9 (1.4) | 1.8 (1.2) | 1.5 (0.9) | 1.9 (1.3) | 1.8 (1.2) | 1.7 (1.0) |
| HH’s # of cattlea | 3.5 (14.6) | 2.8 (6.4) | 1.7 (4.2) | 2.7 (6.6) | 3.5 (6.9) | 1.4 (4.1) |
| HH’s # of small animalsa | 11.1 (12.8) | 11.6 (15.1) | 7.6 (9.3) | 12.4 (18.7) | 12.8 (12.6) | 8.0 (9.1) |
| HH hires paid agricultural labour | 21.1 | 26.3 | 5.3 | 25.5 | 37.2 | 8.3 |
| HH housing conditions and assets indexa | 3.3 (1.6) | 3.9 (1.5) | 3.1 (1.5) | 3.8 (1.5) | 4.3 (1.4) | 2.6 (1.6) |
| Woman is employed outside subsistence farming | 35.8 | 30.3 | 38.3 | 28.3 | 28.6 | 44.6 |
Abbreviation: HH, household.
a
Means, standard deviations in parentheses.