TABLE 2.
Demographics of study communities, Ecuador, 2003-2005
| Community | No. of houses | Contact network size | Food network size | Residence duration (years)* | Contact degree† | Food degree† | Spatial index‡ | Geographic boundaries (m)§ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roadless communities | ||||||||
| 1 | 29 | 192 | 105 | 37.3 | 13.2 | 7.2 | 3.4 | 172 |
| 2 | 32 | 229 | 109 | 33.0 | 14.3 | 6.8 | 3.6 | 235 |
| 3 | 21 | 84 | 35 | 35.7 | 9.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 241 |
| 4 | 49 | 457 | 255 | 37.8 | 18.7 | 10.4 | 3.7 | 179 |
| 5 | 69 | 504 | 234 | 46.5 | 14.8 | 6.9 | 3.8 | 198 |
| Road communities | ||||||||
| 6 | 109 | 716 | 263 | 33.5 | 13.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 868 |
| 7 | 64 | 170 | 90 | 17.9 | 5.5 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 1,261 |
| 8 | 171 | 1,020 | 420 | 31.0 | 12.3 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 902 |
| 9 | 11 | 24 | 2 | 9.9 | 4.8 | 0.4 | 6.0 | 2,557 |
| Pooled | 555 | 32.7 | 12.5 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 735 | ||
| Roadless | 355 | 39.7 | 14.9 | 7.5 | 3.6 | 205 | ||
| Road | 200 | 28.7 | 11.2 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 1,397 | ||
| p value¶ | >0.00005 | >0.00005 | >0.00005 | >0.00005 | 0.0112 | |||
*
Residence duration is a mean measure of the time that households have been members of their communities, defined as the longest time that any household member has been a part of the community.
†
Degree measures are averages at the household level.
‡
Spatial index is a metric of housing density, calculated as the harmonic mean of the distance between all households in a community (refer to equation in text).
§
Geographic boundaries are determined from the maximum distance between households.
¶
p value (t test).