Impact of a cash-for-work programme on food consumption and nutrition among women and children facing food insecurity in rural Bangladesh
CGN Mascie-Taylor, MK Marks, R Goto & R Islam
Volume 88, Number 11, November 2010, 854-860
Table 1. Baseline demographic characteristics of households participating in a cash-for-work programme and control households, Bangladesh, 2007
| Characteristic | Households |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| In programme (n = 895) | Control (n = 921) | ||
| Age of adult female family member in years, mean | 25.0 | 25.0 | 0.966 |
| Age of child in months, mean | 30.2 | 29.4 | 0.295 |
| Households with a male child, % | 50.9 | 50.4 | 0.632 |
| Households with a female head, % | 8.5 | 5.1 | 0.004 |
| Illiteracy of main earner, % | 85.6 | 77.2 | < 0.001 |
| Usual occupation of main earner | |||
| Day labourer, % | 82.1 | 86.8 | 0.005 |
| Other, % | 17.9 | 13.2 | |