Table 1.

Characteristics of households in each district (Numbers; mean values and standard deviations)

	Bududa district (n 555)							Kiryandongo district (n 523)
	Affected (n 285)			Controls (n 270)				Affected (n 260)			Controls (n 263)
	n	Mean	sd	n	Mean	sd	P	n	Mean	sd	n	Mean	sd	P
(a) The interviewed head of the household
Male	189			184			0·65	125			148			0·07
Female	96			86				135			115
Age (years)	555	38·9	17·0		43·6	16·0	<0·01	518*	40·0	11·9		37·6	14·0	0·04
No education	50			78			<0·01	26			55			<0·01
Primary education	213			140				193			178
Secondary education	19			46				39			25
≥College	3			6				2			5
(b) Household
Number of members		5·0	3·2		6·4	3·0	<0·01		6·4	2·7		6·1	2·8	0·14
Main source of livelihood
Farming	271			229			<0·01	225			223			0·29
Wage	1			10				6			13
Trader	6			22				26			19
Others	7			9				3			8
Existence of assets that complement food source (commercial farmland, buildings, machines, motor vehicle, motorcycle, bicycle, livestock or poultry)
Yes	93			17			<0·01	143			84			<0·01
No	192			253				117			179
Received relief food in the last 3 years preceding the interview
Yes	65			27			<0·01	242			4			<0·01
No	220			243				18			259
Food insecurity scores		9·1	6·0		12·4	6·0	<0·01		9·2	8·3		5·7	5·4	<0·01
Diet diversity scores		7·1	1·9		5·9	2·3	<0·01		6·7	2·6		6·1	2·3	0·01

^*There are five missing values for age in the district, four in the controls and one in the affected group.