Table 2.
Main sample characteristics.
| Sample characteristics | Malawi |
Tanzania |
Uganda |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Sellers | Non sellers | All | Sellers | Non sellers | All | Sellers | Non sellers | |
| # of households | 9894 | 8727 | 1167 | 2074 | 1335 | 739 | 1788 | 1415 | 373 |
| of which: | |||||||||
| Male headed (%) | 75.4 | 75.7 | 74.7 | 73.7 | 72.7 | 71.7 | 70.7 | 69.7 | 68.7 |
| Female headed (%) | 24.6 | 24.3 | 25.3 | 26.3 | 27.3 | 28.3 | 29.3 | 30.3 | 31.3 |
| Education (%) | |||||||||
| – None | 78.8 | 78.2 | 83.8 | 30.2 | 28.7 | 33.3 | 18.8 | 16.6 | 27.7 |
| – Primary | 9.1 | 9.4 | 6.9 | 62.9 | 65.4 | 57.5 | 58.2 | 59.0 | 55.2 |
| – Secondary | 11.0 | 11.2 | 8.7 | 6.8 | 5.8 | 9.1 | 18.2 | 19.4 | 13.7 |
| – Tertiary | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| HH head age | 43.1 | 43.7 | 48.6 | 47.3 | 51.4 | 47.0 | 46.7 | 48.1 | |
| (16.51) | (16.42) | (17.28) | (15.76) | (15.25) | (16.45) | (15.73) | (15.51) | (16.54) | |
| HH size | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.1 |
| (2.17) | (2.18) | (2.08) | (2.93) | (2.93) | (2.94) | (2.62) | (2.62) | (2.63) | |
| CDR | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| (0.70) | (0.70) | (0.73) | (0.68) | (0.69) | (0.67) | (0.76) | (0.75) | (0.76) | |
| Distance market (Kms) | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 75.5 | 78.7 | 68.8 | 31.6 | 31.4 | 32.4 |
| (5.31) | (5.32) | (5.25) | (50.97) | (53.09) | (45.46) | (17.79) | (16.87) | (21.02) | |
| Distance pop. Center (Kms) | 36.0 | 35.8 | 38.2 | 51.2 | 54.0 | 45.2 | 25.2 | 24.1 | 29.8 |
| (20.06) | (20.03) | (20.19) | (39.00) | (38.99) | (38.36) | (16.83) | (15.02) | (22.01) | |
| P.c. food expenditure (USD) | 0.52 | 0.53 | 0.42 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.35 |
| (0.34) | (0.35) | (0.29) | (0.35) | (0.34) | (0.36) | (0.26) | (0.27) | (0.25) | |
| P.c. kcal Consumption | 2536 | 2554 | 2383 | 2044 | 2078 | 1972 | 2243 | 2317 | 1954 |
| (2305.56) | (2239.66) | (2807.45) | (867.95) | (858.17) | (884.73) | (1567.90) | (1573.86) | (1512.01) | |
| Hired labor (days) | 4.4 | 4.8 | 1.5 | 8.5 | 10.8 | 3.4 | 16.2 | 17.9 | 9.7 |
| (17.27) | (18.08) | (6.47) | (25.32) | (29.57) | (10.42) | (35.31) | (37.20) | (25.63) | |
| Land owned (Ha) | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.5 |
| (13.13) | (13.87) | (0.61) | (4.59) | (5.27) | (2.34) | (12.76) | (14.15) | (3.83) | |
| # crops harvested | 2.2 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 2.4 |
| (1.12) | (1.09) | (1.11) | (1.12) | (1.14) | (0.85) | (1.87) | (1.80) | (1.45) | |
| # crops sold | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| (1.02) | (0.90) | 0.00 | (0.94) | (0.76) | 0.00 | (1.49) | (1.31) | 0.00 | |
| HH Harvest value (USD) | 269.92 | 292.28 | 76.91 | 244.65 | 314.20 | 96.63 | 215.03 | 254.46 | 60.06 |
| (731.34) | (768.50) | (110.90) | (500.71) | (429.69) | (599.61) | (334.09) | (361.59) | (79.97) | |
| HH revenue (USD) | 102.28 | 114.13 | 0.00 | 112.23 | 164.96 | 0.00 | 85.59 | 107.38 | 0.00 |
| (542.64) | (572.03) | 0.00 | (286.60) | (334.75) | 0.00 | (217.84) | (239.16) | 0.00 | |
| AG Income (USD) | 285.18 | 308.40 | 84.72 | 281.35 | 350.66 | 133.84 | 234.07 | 272.07 | 84.77 |
| (738.08) | (775.05) | (130.67) | (534.48) | (472.76) | (621.66) | (354.33) | (378.56) | (167.05) | |
| HH Days worked | 125.30 | 129.00 | 93.36 | 149.32 | 161.51 | 123.38 | 134.10 | 143.74 | 96.22 |
| (116.28) | (119.63) | (74.64) | (146.35) | (150.35) | (133.91) | (106.10) | (109.05) | (83.57) | |
Source: Own computations on LSMS -ISA. SD in parentheses.