Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of included households from Villa El Salvador (Peru), by food security status (N = 329)
| Variables | Measurements | Descriptive statistics by food security status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food secure | Mildly Food insecure | Moderately food insecure | Severely food insecure | ||
| Mean (St. Dev.) | |||||
| Age | Years | 39.31(12.37) | 36.96 (11.24) | 37.35 (12.31) | 44.16 (13.06) |
| Weekly household food per person | Peruvian soles | 43.04 (19.97) | 37.92 (14.90) | 36.42 (13.52) | 30.84 (14.35) |
| Frequency (%) | |||||
| Gender | Women | 64 (85.33) | 45 (91.84) | 77 (97.47) | 117 (92.86) |
| Education | < High school graduate | 11 (14.67) | 7 (14.29) | 21 (26.58) | 58 (46.03) |
| High school graduate | 24 (32.00) | 23 (46.94) | 28 (35.44) | 40 (31.75) | |
| Some college or technical school | 40 (53.33) | 19 (38.78) | 30 (37.97) | 28 (22.22) | |
| Employment of household head | Not employed | 44 (58.67) | 35 (69.39) | 52 (65.82) | 84 (66.67) |
| Self-employed | 23 (30.67) | 10 (20.41) | 17 (21.52) | 29 (23.02) | |
| Formally employed | 8 (10.67) | 5 (10.20) | 10 (13.25) | 13 (10.32) | |
| Household level employment statusa | < 50% of household members employed | 10 (13.33) | 10 (20.41) | 16 (20.25) | 22 (17.46) |
| 50% of household members employed | 25 (33.33) | 16 (32.65) | 29 (36.71) | 45 (35.71) | |
| > 50% of household members employed | 40 (53.33) | 23 (46.94) | 34 (43.04) | 59 (46.83) | |
| Neighborhood income strata | Lower income block | 19 (18.27) | 14 (13.46) | 26 (25.00) | 45 (43.27) |
| Lower-middle income block | 29 (23.97) | 21 (17.36) | 28 (23.14) | 43 (35.54) | |
| Middle income block | 27 (25.96) | 14 (13.46) | 25 (24.04) | 38 (36.54) | |
aHousehold-level employment status includes those formally employed and self-employed
Note: Neighborhood income percentages is calculated by row, not column