Table 3.

Selected characteristics of the households studied by research site, Yucatán, Mexico

Household characteristics	Statistic	Hocabá (Peri-urban, sisal region)	Sahcabá (Semi-rural, sisal region)	Yaxcabá (Semi-rural, milpa region)	Kancabdzonot (Rural, milpa region)
Land (solar) size (mean, squared metres)	Mean	1363.8	1137.1	924.1	1239.3
	Std. Dev.	1643.1	1138.0	783.5	970.0
Frequency in vegetables intakes (0–7 days)	Mean	4.7	4.3	4.6	4.1
	Std. Dev.	2.3	2.1	2.1	2.0
Frequency in meat and fish intakes (0–7 days)	Mean	5.2	4.5	5.0	4.7
	Std. Dev.	1.6	1.8	1.5	1.5
Age of household head (years)	Mean	58.8	53.1	55.0	46.7
	Std. Dev.	15.4	16.4	15.6	14.4
Average household education (years)	Mean	6.5	5.9	6.8	6.5
	Std. Dev.	3.6	2.9	3.5	2.6
Youth dependency ratio (Ratio of the children under 15 years old divided by the number of adults in the household)	Mean	0.55	0.96	0.31	0.52
	Std. Dev.	0.82	1.03	0.55	0.57
Female head without partner	Proportion	20.41	8.64	13.10	7.55
Male head without partner	Proportion	10.20	3.70	4.76	3.77
Household head speaks Maya	Proportion	0.00	2.50	4.82	13.21
Household head speaks Spanish and Maya	Proportion	18.37	3.75	9.64	0.00
Household head speaks Spanish	Proportion	81.63	93.75	85.54	86.79
Urban jobs (% of household members working in urban jobs)	Mean	0.30	0.35	0.16	0.07
	Std. Dev.	0.25	0.27	0.22	0.17
Household income, mean, adult scale equivalent MXN (GBP/USD)	Mean	1670.4	1545.7	1618.6	977.0
	Std. Dev.	1133.4	835.2	1494.4	1042.0
Wealth index (0–1, 5 assets)	Mean	0.54	0.44	0.44	0.45
	Std. Dev.	0.23	0.19	0.20	0.21
Prospera beneficiary	Proportion	17.35	41.25	67.86	83.02
Sixty-five and over beneficiary	Proportion	7.14	7.50	21.43	9.43

Source: Author’s survey data (December 2016–April 2017)