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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Gerontol. 2012 May 15;47(10):807–813. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2012.05.006

Table 2.

Help received following crop failure in previous year. Excluded are cases where the loss was claimed to have little or no effect on consumption. Help was often given by multiple kin categories and so the bottom row reflects the percentage of interviewees who received help from at least one donor category.

% Help Received
Rice (n=374) Corn (n=433) Manioc (n=330) Plantain (n=285)
Biological children 21.5 15.6 15.4 14.1
Biological parents 24.4 21.8 24.3 19.6
Grandparents 1.5 1.2 1.1 1.0
Full siblings 18.9 20.0 19.3 17.6
Other related 52.4 51.5 50.0 55.8
Other non-related 9.1 9.7 11.1 10.6
Received help from anyone 73.5 78.5 84.8 69.8