Table 3.

Multivariate estimation of household water strategies, Agincourt Site, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

	Uses for Water				Level of use		Acquisition strategies
	Brewing beer	Water for plants	Water for animals	Water making bricks	Daily consumption summer, L	Daily consumption winter, L	Minutes to collect	Male head collects	Female head collects	Son collects	Daughter collects
Research question #1:  What are the associations  between natural resource  use, household size,  composition and  economic status?
Household size	0.12	−0.04	0.05	−0.10	0.33	1.20	0.92	0.13*	−0.05	−0.09	0.01
Household composition
Sex ratio	−0.35	86.00	0.14	0.00	0.22	2.12	7.26	0.53**	−0.37*	0.08	0.12
Young age structure	−0.05	−0.43	0.26	−0.25	5.91	7.51	10.86	0.21	−0.04	0.07	−0.16
Older age structure	0.57	−0.12	−0.50	0.84	5.27	8.91	−2.34	0.99	−0.16	−0.62	0.27
SES
Possessions index	−0.40	0.00	−0.01	0.09	−3.30	−6.24***	−11.28	0.12	−0.13	0.12	−0.26**
Village	−0.03*	−0.10*	−0.06	0.03	−1.71*	−2.22***	0.83*	−0.01	−0.04	−0.02	−0.04
Research question #2:  Beyond these household  characteristics, how is  mortality experience  associated with natural  resources?
Adult mortality
within past 2 years	2.39	0.27	0.92	0.33	−10.87	2.12	−36.46	0.21	−0.38	−0.06	0.78
Mortality×SES	−0.43	0.01	−0.05	−0.37	3.78	1.28	8.82	0.20	0.04	0.13	−0.18
Years since mortality	−0.10	−0.18	−0.66	0.22	3.58	1.84	12.36	−0.70*	0.08	−0.32	−0.01
Constant	−2.78*	0.43	−2.30*	−1.72	98.46***	87.43	67.41*	0.97***	1.25*	−0.65	0.78
Goodness of fita	93.75	70.42	90.83	83.33	.01	.06	.04	83.75	60.00	76.67	56.67
n	240	240	240	240	228	227	195	240	240	240	240