Table 1. Characteristics of sampled households in Bahi and Mbarali districts, Tanzania.

	(a)		(b)
	Bahi District		Mbarali District		Total		Testa
Variable	Mean	SDb	Mean	SDb	Mean	SDb	a≠b
Household size (persons)	4.63	1.78	6.27	2.59	5.46	2.36	***
Years of education of household head	7.00	3.03	6.58	2.63	6.80	2.85
Age of household head (years)	42.08	13.68	45.46	13.57	44.0	13.70	*
Female household head(percentage)	0.19	0.40	0.19	0.40	0.19	0.39
Participated in training on food preparation and nutrition (proportion)	0.14	0.34	0.06	0.24	0.09	0.29	**
Agricultural land area (hectares)	1.99	2.27	1.39	1.66	1.69	2.00	**
Household grows vegetables (proportion)	1.00	0.00	0.19	0.39	0.59	0.49	***
Access to off-farm income (percentage)	0.78	0.42	0.15	0.35	0.46	0.50	***
Number of observations	101	103			204

Categorical and continuous variables were tested using χ2 and t-tests adjusted for clustering, respectively.

^aAsterisks denote the level of significance for a t-test/χ²-test of difference in means between the Districts, with *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05 and* p<0.10.

^bSD = Standard deviation.