Table 1 Characteristics of households, children, and villages
From: Household cereal crop harvest and children’s nutritional status in rural Burkina Faso
Characteristics | Mean (25th, 50th, 75th centile) or counts (%) |
|---|---|
Household characteristics (n = 545) | |
No. of people | 11 (6, 9, 14) |
Adult equivalents | 8 (4, 7, 10) |
Wealth | |
Level 1 (poorest) | 122 (23%) |
Level 2 | 136 (25%) |
Level 3 | 138 (26%) |
Level 4 (wealthiest) | 104 (19%) |
Unclassified | 45 (8%) |
At least one member with occupation outside agriculture | 167 (31%) |
Garden produce harvested | 383 (70%) |
Cash crops harvested | 431 (79%) |
Food crops harvested | 542 (99%) |
Crop yield (kg/ae/year)a | |
Millet | 144 (53, 113, 190) |
Sorghum | 169 (70, 131, 208) |
Maize | 41 (6, 18, 42) |
Fonio | 14 (0, 5, 18) |
Rice | 18 (0, 0, 24) |
Cotton | 46 (0, 0, 56) |
Sesame | 61 (14, 33, 68) |
Peanut | 37 (5, 21, 53) |
Food energy equivalent (kcal/ae/d): | |
food crops | 2978 (1609, 2493, 3769) |
< 2900 kcal/ae/d | 321 (59%) |
food & cash crops | 4213 (1965, 3211, 5483) |
< 2900 kcal/ae/d | 238 (44%) |
Children’s characteristics (n = 975) | |
Age | |
0 − <6 months | 464 (48%) |
6 months − <2 years | 222 (23%) |
2 years − 5 years | 289 (30%) |
Sex | |
Male | 476 (49%) |
Female | 499 (51%) |
MUACb | 135 (130, 130, 140) |
< 115 mm | 98 (10%) |
115–125 mm | 137 (14%) |
Month of MUAC measurement | |
March | 131 (13%) |
April | 133 (14%) |
May | 208 (21%) |
June | 265 (27%) |
July | 139 (14%) |
August | 99 (10%) |
Village characteristics (n = 52) | |
Infrastructure level | |
Level 1 (lowest) | 32 (62%) |
Level 2 | 14 (27%) |
Level 3 | 4 (8%) |
Level 4 (highest) | 2 (4%) |
Has a market | 20 (37%) |