Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics for Household Sample.
| Rural | Urban | P valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Households | 293 | 299 | |
| Cooking practices | |||
| Household has LPG stove | 7.5% | 51.5% | 0.000 |
| Household used LPG stove yesterday | 2.4% | 29.6% | 0.000 |
| Household has charcoal stove | 72.0% | 89.0% | 0.000 |
| Household used charcoal stove yesterday | 27.8% | 63.6% | 0.000 |
| Household has three-stone stove | 97.3% | 29.4% | 0.000 |
| Household used three-stone stove yesterday | 90.1% | 19.1% | 0.000 |
| Household characteristics | |||
| Primary cook is financial decision maker | 24.6% | 50.2% | 0.000 |
| Primary cook gender: female | 98.3% | 91.6% | 0.000 |
| Financial decision maker gender: female | 4.1% | 3.4% | 0.111 |
| Primary cook age | |||
| Mean | 39.1 | 42.6 | 0.002 |
| SD | 13.1 | 13.8 | |
| Primary cook education | |||
| Less than primary | 77.8% | 36.5% | 0.000 |
| Primary/junior high | 16.7% | 28.1% | |
| Secondary or higher | 5.5% | 35.5% | |
| Household size | |||
| Mean | 7.0 | 4.6 | 0.000 |
| SD | 2.9 | 2.3 | |
| Household engaged in farming | 99.7% | 61.5% | 0.000 |
| Household has electricity | 31.4% | 85.6% | 0.000 |
| Household has bank account | 28.7% | 74.6% | 0.000 |
| Household has mobile money | 36.5% | 60.2% | 0.000 |
| Household could borrow GHC2000 | 34.8% | 45.5% | 0.008 |
| More than half of neighbors have LPG (only asked of urban respondents) | N/A | 37.8% | N/A |
aP values are for tests of the null hypothesis that means or frequencies are equal across urban and rural subgroups. These are calculated from t tests (for continuous variables) and Chi-squared tests (for binary variables).