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 3. Reported number of days of food consumption by children from households participating in a cash-for-work programme and from control households in the 7 days before the end of a panel study, Bangladesh, 2007
| Food type and no. of days consumed | Households |
Pa | |
|---|---|---|---|
| In programme (n = 895) | Control (n = 921) | ||
| % | % | ||
| Eggs | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 45.5 | 89.3 | |
| 1 | 28.2 | 7.7 | |
| 2 | 18.4 | 2.2 | |
| 3 | 4.5 | 0.5 | |
| 4 or more | 3.5 | 0.3 | |
| Meat | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 80.8 | 96.7 | |
| 1 | 15.0 | 3.1 | |
| 2 | 4.2 | 0.1 | |
| Fish | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 7.4 | 44.8 | |
| 1 | 3.9 | 35.3 | |
| 2 | 14.1 | 17.2 | |
| 3 | 21.9 | 1.6 | |
| 4 | 23.9 | 0.9 | |
| 5 | 13.7 | 0.2 | |
| 6 | 7.4 | 0 | |
| 7 | 7.7 | 0 | |
| Cereals | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 91.8 | 76.7 | |
| 1 | 2.0 | 2.4 | |
| 2 | 1.6 | 5.4 | |
| 3 | 1.6 | 3.8 | |
| 4 or more | 3.0 | 11.7 | |
| Pulses | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 25.7 | 62.3 | |
| 1 | 23.2 | 23.2 | |
| 2 | 27.3 | 11.3 | |
| 3 | 12.5 | 1.8 | |
| 4 or more | 11.3 | 1.3 | |
| Green leafy vegetables | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 4.9 | 7.7 | |
| 1 | 2.7 | 7.8 | |
| 2 | 13.2 | 22.6 | |
| 3 | 12.7 | 24.2 | |
| 4 | 19.1 | 19.8 | |
| 5 | 11.6 | 9.6 | |
| 6 | 10.8 | 2.7 | |
| 7 | 24.9 | 5.6 | |
| Milk | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 70.4 | 92.0 | |
| 1 | 12.1 | 4.9 | |
| 2 | 5.9 | 1.7 | |
| 3 | 2.7 | 0.5 | |
| 4 or more | 8.9 | 0.9 | |
| Fruit | < 0.001 | ||
| 0 | 87.3 | 97.2 | |
| 1 | 5.6 | 1.4 | |
| 2 | 3.2 | 0.7 | |
| 3 or more | 3.9 | 0.8 | |
a The P-values were obtained by comparing the number of days each food type was consumed by children from households participating in a cash-for-work programme and by children from control households using the chi-squared test.