Table 5.
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