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.