TABLE 1.

Sample size, percentage of rice-growing provinces, GDP per capita, and pathogen presence for 25 provinces.

	Number of participants (n = 487)	Percentage of rice	GDP per capita (10k Yuan)	Pathogen
Rice provinces
Chongqing	10	0.51	0.37	NA
Fujian	13	0.81	0.67	–0.25
Guangdong	40	0.73	0.78	NA
Guangxi	11	0.59	0.35	0.61
Hubei	13	0.53	0.41	–0.50
Hunan	11	0.79	0.34	0.55
Jiangsu	33	0.60	0.73	–0.31
Jiangxi	16	0.84	0.30	0.80
Shanghai	19	0.88	1.74	–0.82
Sichuan	24	0.51	0.31	–0.04
Zhejiang	20	0.83	0.82	–0.73
Wheat provinces
Anhui	23	0.33	0.33	0.77
Beijing	24	0.06	1.12	–0.64
Gansu	7	0.00	0.23	NA
Guizhou	12	0.42	0.18	1.95
Hebei	25	0.02	0.44	–0.40
Heilongjiang	6	0.10	0.54	–0.65
Henan	51	0.07	0.33	–0.14
Jilin	10	0.11	0.44	0.54
Liaoning	19	0.14	0.68	–0.46
Shaanxi	22	0.05	0.28	0.50
Shandong	40	0.02	0.57	NA
Shanxi	24	0.00	0.36	–0.24
Tianjin	7	0.11	0.98	–0.73
Yunnan	7	0.33	0.30	–0.25

Rice-growing region data, and GDP per capita were from the 1996 Statistical Yearbook, as in Talhelm et al. (2014). Pathogen data were from a 2019 study (Liu et al., 2019).