Table 4.

The use of female-controlled income in purchasing food

Use of female income	Percent	Examples mentioned in surveys
Purchase food	48.3%	Vegetables, meat, onions, tomatoes, salt, sugar, cooking oil, milling grain, dough to make local donuts (mandazi), food for children.
Household needs (without explicitly mentioning food)	41.4%	Soap, school expenses for children (school fees, school clothes, and notebooks), medicine, beads, purchase livestock, things for church, medicine for livestock, materials to make cultural items, clothes, cosmetics, shoes.
Total potential households using female income to supplement food availability	89.7%

Notes: 87 households reported how female-controlled income was used out of 189 households responding to the questions about female-controlled income