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Table 2. Descriptive statistics of the household characteristics (n = 38244).

Variable		Number	percentage
Gender of head of the household	Male	33640	88.0
Gender of head of the household	Female	4604	12.0
Literacy of head of the household	Literate	27789	72.7
Literacy of head of the household	Illiterate	10455	27.3
Size of the household	Less than 5	28727	75.1
Size of the household	5 or more	9517	24.9
Expenditure quintiles	Q1	7667	20.0
	Q2	7649	20.0
	Q3	7649	20.0
	Q4	7649	20.0
	Q5	7630	20.0
Settlement	Urban	18854	49.3
Settlement	Rural	19390	50.7
Age of head of the household	Lower than 40	14119	36.9
	40<age<60	15468	40.4
	60<age<80	7451	19.5
	More than 80	1206	3.2
number of earning members in the household	1	27669	72.3
number of earning members in the household	More than 1	10571	27.6