. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 15.

Published in final edited form as: Popul Res Policy Rev. 2009 Nov 5;29(6):819–842. doi: 10.1007/s11113-009-9167-0

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of orphans and non-orphans in the sample

	Non-orphans	Paternal orphans	Maternal orphans	Double orphans
Live in single-parent households	22.7	90.0^*	55.0^*	66.4^*
Female household-heads (%)	20.8	88.2^*	22.7^*	53.2^*
Relationship with household head
Child	90.3	77.3^*	58.1^*	–
Grand child	5.1	11.2^*	13.6^*	33^*
Sibling	0.1	1.1^*	10.5^*	25^*
Other relative	2.0	7^*	11.7^*	28.9^*
Non-relative	0.1	1.8^*	2.4^*	5.5^*
Other relationships	2.0	1.6^*	3.6^*	7.6^*
National Wealth Quintile
First	18.9	25.2^*	22.1^*	21.0^*
Second	18.2	25.3^*	19.6^*	20.7^*
Third	23.3	17.8^*	20.7^*	20^*
Fourth	24.4	16.4^*	20.9^*	18.8^*
Fifth	15.1	15.2^*	16.6^*	19.6^*
Household Size (mean)	7.0	5.6^*	6.0^*	5.8^*
N	60,447	23,093	4,744	5,667

P < 0.05