Table 2.
Summary characteristics of key indicators: drought exposure, food insecurity, and psychological distress, stratified by rural and urban location
| Rural | Urban | All | Mean difference between rural and urban | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N =919) | (N =4093) | (N =5012) | |||||||
| % | N | % | N | % | N | % | SE | P-value | |
| Drought exposure | |||||||||
| Zero and moderate | 65.0 | 597 | 44.3 | 1814 | 47.3 | 2369 | 20.6 | 6.9 | 0.003 |
| Very dry | 5.5 | 50 | 13.4 | 550 | 12.3 | 616 | -8.0 | 3.4 | 0.019 |
| Long dry | 18.1 | 166 | 32.1 | 1314 | 30.1 | 1509 | -14.0 | 6.0 | 0.019 |
| Constant dry | 5.8 | 54 | 3.0 | 123 | 3.4 | 171 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 0.259 |
| Constant and long dry | 5.6 | 52 | 7.2 | 293 | 6.9 | 348 | 1.5 | 3.7 | 0.681 |
| Food insecurity | |||||||||
| Missing meals | |||||||||
| Yes | 1.8 | 16 | 1.6 | 63 | 1.6 | 79 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.707 |
| No | 98.2 | 903 | 98.4 | 4030 | 98.4 | 4933 | |||
| Core food consumption | |||||||||
| Below-average | 32.8 | 301 | 31.6 | 1293 | 31.8 | 1592 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.635 |
| Above-average | 67.2 | 618 | 68.4 | 2800 | 68.2 | 3420 | |||
| Discretionary food consumption | |||||||||
| Above average | 60.2 | 554 | 62.2 | 2545 | 61.9 | 3103 | -2.0 | 2.7 | 0.466 |
| Below average | 39.8 | 365 | 37.8 | 1548 | 38.1 | 1909 | |||
| Psychological distress, Mean (SE) | |||||||||
| 15.1 | 0.3 | 15.6 | 0.1 | 15.5 | 0.1 | -0.5 | 0.3 | 0.104 | |