Table 3b.

Sample characteristics – poverty measures.

	Child level (at enrollment)		Full sample (observations)
	N	%	N	%
Expenditures poverty
Poorest	1,340	36.3	4,773	33.1
Middle	1,256	34.0	4,769	33.1
Least poor	1,096	29.7	4,768	33.1
Missinga	1	0.0	100	0.7
Assets poverty
Poorest	1,267	34.3	4,786	33.2
Middle	1,289	34.9	4,754	33.0
Least poor	1,136	30.8	4,770	33.1
Missinga	1	0.0	100	0.7
Food poverty
Poorest	1,145	31.0	4,770	33.1
Middle	1,288	34.9	4,770	33.1
Least poor	1,259	34.1	4,770	33.1
Missinga	1	0.0	100	0.7
Subjective poverty
Poorest (rank 1–3)	1,410	38.2	5,509	38.2
Middle (rank 4–5)	1,178	31.9	4,622	32.1
Least poor (rank 6–10)	1,104	29.9	4,179	29.0
Missinga	1	0.0	100	0.7
Total	3,693		14,410

^aMissing values are exclused from the bivariate and multivariate analyses.