Table 5.

Characteristics of study households at baseline in 2002 (23)

Characteristics	Ultra-poor households
	Intervention, (n=2,189)	Comparison, (n=2,134)
% of households owning homestead land*	45	56
% of households not owning any cultivable land*	55	43
% of households reporting chronic deficit round the year*	64	44
% of households with a literate head*	7	12
% of households with a female head*	42	28
For major illness episode of sick person (15 days recall)
% seeking self-care (no treatment + self-treatment)	46	38
% treatment-seeking from ‘formal allopathic’ (paraprofessionals + professional allopaths) providers	23	25
% spending more than Tk 25 for recent illness	30	39

Differences are statistically significant at 1% level