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. 2018 Oct 17;14(Suppl 3):e12676. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12676

Table 2.

Trends in CHANGE poultry‐related indicators, based on three monitoring surveys conducted over 1 year of implementation

Burkina Faso Cote d'Ivoire Senegal Tanzania
Monitoring wave 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
Survey period Feb 2015 Jul 2015 Dec 2015 Feb 2015 Jul 2015 Feb 2016 Feb 2015 Jul 2015 Jan 2016 NA Sep 2015 Jan 2016
No. of households (HH) 378 378 377 401 399 395 73 153 195 NA 150 143
Production
Percentage keeping chickens 92 88 89 56 77 65 59 100 96 NA 63.3 70.1
Median number of adult chickens (among those keeping) 12 12 14 5 4 4 4 5 4 NA 3 3
Percentage of chicken keepers with 10 or more adult chickens 63 59 67 27 24 28 4 19 14 NA 4 27
Use of improved practices NA
Henhouse/coop present (%) 67 78 66 62 66 77 100 98 98 NA 70 52
Henhouse is “improved” (among those with henhouse/coop; %) 37 66 34 45 40 71 100 NA 41 15
Chickens fed supplementary feed (%) 99 99 87 78 94 99 93 100 98 NA 63 71
Practising fully cooped rearing of chickens (%) 6 0 0 3 2 1 58 84 83 NA 2 0
Percentage losing chickens to illness in past 4 months 39 40 44 42 44 51 47 41 50 NA 39 48
Percentage (of those with chickens) producing at least one egg in past 2 weeks (Wave 1: past week) 63 75 62 49 75 58 70 95 83 NA 42 27
Median number of eggs produced (among those producing) 9 12 7 8 10 3 10 30 15 NA 6 12.7
Avg. number per adult hen (among those producing) 1.3 2.1 2.1 1.3 2.4 1.1 2.3 7.6 6.7 NA 2.5 4.9
Portion selling eggs in last 2 weeks (Wave 1: last week; %) 0 3 1 3 2 1 0 4 4 NA 3 3
Portion selling at least one chicken in last 4 months (Wave 1: last month; %) 35 37 32 32 30 38 5 0 7 NA 7 14
Median earnings from chicken sales in last 4 months (USD among earners; Wave 1: last month) 16.48 10.03 10.03 10.41 11.03 8.36 55.52 NA 8.36 NA 6.88 1.13
Reporting food was a main item purchased with garden/poultry revenue (%) 29 31 18 54 68 47 100 NA 35 NA 82 84
Reported purchasing eggs with revenue (%) 2 5 6 10 25 20 0 NA 0 NA 0 3
Gender and decision making
Percentage of HH poultry owned by main project participant (woman) 40 40 27 74 65 79 46 43 53 NA 63 64
Of those earning revenue from chickens, percentage of HH in which woman has full decision‐making power over its use 18 77 59 62 53 48 100 100 94 NA 71 21
Of those earning revenue from chickens, portion of HH in which woman has full or partial decision‐making power over its use (%) 57 86 84 75 70 65 100 100 94 NA 86 49
Consumption
Percentage of women consuming eggs (past 24 hr) 13 35 27 21 41 26.6 37 69 71 NA 8 9
Percentage of children 6 months to 5 years consuming eggs (past 7 days) 55 80 64 43 64 28a 65 87 73 NA 25 38
Avg. number of eggs consumed by HH in last 2 weeks 2.7 5.5 2.5 2.2 5.9 2.6 5.3 21.8 12.5 NA 2.1 2.0
Avg. number of eggs consumed by youngest child in last 2 weeks (Wave 1: last week) 1.9 3.2 2.1 1.0 2.1 1.3 2.5 7.2 5.4 NA 0.5 1.2
Portion consuming a chicken in last 2 weeks (Wave 1: last week; %) 64 51 52 44 36 38 7 15 31 NA 22 33

Note. CHANGE: Creating Homestead Agriculture for Nutrition and Gender Equity Project; NA: Not applicable.

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Data refer to the past 24 hr.