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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Food Policy. 2017 Dec 1;74:82–99. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.11.007

Table A3.

Baseline mean characteristics of same respondent households - by treatment/comparison.

Comparisom group Treatment group p-Value: comparing both groups
Mean Std. Error Mean Std. Error
Household demographics
Household size 4.77 0.17 4.66 0.13 0.620
# Children under 5 0.76 0.05 0.69 0.04 0.360
# Children 6–17 2.05 0.11 2.07 0.08 0.916
# Adults 18–59 1.13 0.07 1.07 0.05 0.462
# Elderly (> 60) 0.82 0.05 0.83 0.03 0.861
% households that have disabled members 28.69 0.03 25.48 0.02 0.359
% households that have chronically ill members 36.16 0.03 35.94 0.01 0.942
% households that have elderly members 66.17 0.03 65.55 0.02 0.859
Main respondent characteristics
% Female 72.29 0.03 74.58 0.02 0.462
Age 57.68 1.36 57.95 0.96 0.882
% Widowed 43.53 0.02 42.49 0.02 0.731
% Divorced/Separated 10.31 0.01 9.80 0.01 0.757
% Main resp. has schooling 57.97 0.03 52.44 0.02 0.114
% Main resp. currently attends school 0.39 0.00 1.33 0.00 0.042
Highest grade of Main resp. 3.24 0.18 3.02 0.15 0.365
Household characteristics
Monthly per capita total expenditure (in usd) 34.01 1.87 33.52 1.25 0.831
Monthly Per capita food expenditure (in usd) 20.76 1.19 21.15 0.98 0.798
HFIAS score (1–27) 13.85 0.46 14.28 0.25 0.426
Diet diversity score (1 −10) 6.21 0.18 5.88 0.12 0.132
Distance to food market (km) 3.51 0.59 3.86 0.25 0.578
Distance to input market (km) 19.90 2.16 18.94 1.45 0.714
Distance to water source (km) 1.26 0.19 1.25 0.09 0.970
# of livestock type 2.11 0.07 2.10 0.08 0.957
% households that receive wages 9.66 0.01 9.65 0.01 0.991
% households undertaking casual/maricho labor 46.51 0.04 42.45 0.02 0.323
% households that planted crops last season 87.31 0.02 88.52 0.01 0.628
% households categorized as labor constrained 84.83 0.02 84.93 0.01 0.956
Aid received (in USD) 76.34 13.64 53.06 3.73 0.104
% of households that have an outstanding loan 8.60 0.01 9.08 0.01 0.786
% households that have suffered from a shock 85.84 0.02 90.15 0.01 0.137
N 652 1346

Notes: Attrition-adjusted weighted results.