Table 2. Reported food expenditure^a by households participating in a cash-for-work programme and control households in the 7 days before the end of a panel study, Bangladesh, 2007.

Food typeb	Households				P
	In programme (n = 895)		Control (n = 921)
	Mean (US$)	SD (US$)	Mean (US$)	SD (US$)
Cereals	4.11	2.60	1.60	1.10	< 0.001
Pulses	0.12	0.16	0.03	0.08	< 0.001
Green leafy vegetables	0.36	0.23	0.15	0.15	< 0.001
Eggs	0.05	0.10	0.01	0.04	< 0.001
Fish	0.50	0.35	0.12	0.17	< 0.001
Meat	0.06	0.27	0.01	0.09	< 0.001
Oil	0.23	0.16	0.14	0.10	< 0.001

SD, standard deviation.

^a Expenditure was recorded in Bangladeshi taka and converted to United States dollars.

^b Details of expenditure on milk and fruit were not available.