Table 5.

Household characteristics at the onset of the armed conflict in Côte d'Ivoire (first survey, August 2002) and households' socioeconomic fate during the armed conflict.

Characteristics	Socioeconomic fate
	'Worse-off'	'Even'	'Better-off'	p-value
Head of household (% of households with the same socioeconomic fate)
Sex: male	92.9	89.7	91.7
Sex: female	7.1	10.3	8.3	0.999*
Education: no	78.6	55.8	66.7
Education: primary	21.4	32.1	25.0
Education: higher	0.0	12.2	8.3	0.559*
Occupation: farmer	100.0	85.3	100.0
Occupation: merchant	0.0	2.6	0.0
Occupation: retiree	0.0	5.8	0.0
Occupation: teacher	0.0	1.9	0.0
Occupation: others	0.0	4.5	0.0	0.999*
Household composition (averages based on counts)
Average no. of inhabitants	10.6	9.6	8.3	0.872**
Average no. of males	4.7	5.0	4.25	0.804**
Average no. children (< 16 years)	5.6	4.8	3.8	0.804**
Accessibility (% of households with the same socioeconomic fate)
Gravel road	7.1	35.3	25.0
Minor road	50.0	26.3	33.3
Main road	42.9	38.5	41.7	0.162*
Located in village with the following economic activities (% of households with the same socioeconomic fate)
Subsistence farming	100.0	100.0	100.0	1.000*
Agricultural production	100.0	100.0	100.0	1.000*
Trade	42.9	40.4	33.3	0.899*
Fishing	28.6	40.4	41.7	0.765*
Wood processing	28.6	14.7	16.7	0.765*
Artisanry	0.0	4.5	8.3	0.765*

* Based on Fisher's exact test

** Based on Kruskal-Wallis test