Table 3.
Grocery shopping frequencies pre-COVID-19 (N = 380) and during COVID-19 (N = 365) for the households of Dhaka city. The number in parenthesis denotes the percentage of total respondents for pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19-related questions.
| Income groups (income, USD/month | Grocery shopping frequency |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| everyday |
every other day |
once a week |
every 15 days |
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| Pre-COVID-19 | COVID-19 | Pre-COVID-19 | COVID-19 | Pre-COVID-19 | COVID-19 | Pre-COVID-19 | COVID-19 | |
| <120 | 23 (6.05) | 10 (2.74) | 37 (9.74)) | 23 (6.30) | 5 (1.32) | 27 (7.40) | 1 (0.26) | 3 (0.82) |
| 120–240 | 33 (8.68) | 10 (2.74) | 70 (18.42) | 34 (9.32) | 28 (7.37) | 60 (16.44) | 1 (0.26) | 23 (6.30) |
| 241–480 | 3 (0.79) | 1 (0.27) | 41 (10.79) | 10 (2.74) | 17 (4.47) | 39 (10.68) | 0 (0) | 11 (3.01) |
| >480 | 8 (2.11) | 1 (0.27) | 53 (13.95) | 17 (4.66) | 52 (13.68) | 59 (16.16) | 8 (2.11) | 37 (10.14) |
| Total | 67 (17.63) | 22 (6.03) | 201 (52.89) | 84 (23.02) | 102 (26.84) | 185 (50.68( | 10 (2.26) | 74 (20.27) |