Table 2 Characteristic of participants at baseline and follow-up in the Karnali Zone of Nepal, 2009-2015
Variables | Baseline (2009) | Midline (2013) | Endline (2015) | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
No. of households surveyed | 3750 | 100 | 3750 | 100 | 3647 | 100 | |
No. of people per household [Mean(SD)] | 3750 | 6.5(2.4) | 3750 | 6.4(2.4) | 3647 | 6.1(2.3) | <0.001 |
Child's age in months [Mean (SD)] | 3750 | 28.5(15.4) | 3750 | 28.0(15.6) | 3647 | 28.2(15.5) | 0.378 |
0-5 | 274 | 7.3 | 313 | 8.3 | 255 | 7.0 | 0.649 |
6-11 | 378 | 10.1 | 385 | 10.3 | 399 | 10.9 | |
12-23 | 837 | 22.3 | 813 | 21.7 | 814 | 22.3 | |
24-35 | 943 | 25.1 | 921 | 24.6 | 908 | 24.9 | |
36-47 | 813 | 21.7 | 816 | 21.8 | 769 | 21.1 | |
48-60 | 505 | 13.5 | 502 | 13.4 | 502 | 13.8 | |
Children’s gender | 0.681 | ||||||
Girls | 2000 | 53.3 | 1963 | 52.3 | 1934 | 53.0 | |
Boys | 1750 | 46.7 | 1787 | 47.7 | 1713 | 47.0 | |
Father’s education | <0.001 | ||||||
Illiterate | 1751 | 46.7 | 1422 | 37.9 | 1173 | 32.2 | |
Primary Level | 36 | 1.0 | 679 | 18.1 | 694 | 19.0 | |
Lower Secondary Level | 612 | 16.3 | 255 | 6.8 | 237 | 6.5 | |
Secondary Level | 896 | 23.9 | 473 | 12.6 | 439 | 12.0 | |
Higher Secondary | 352 | 9.4 | 366 | 9.8 | 491 | 13.5 | |
Intermediate And Above | 103 | 2.7 | 55 | 14.8 | 613 | 16.8 | |
Mother’s education | <0.001 | ||||||
Illiterate | 3019 | 80.5 | 2977 | 79.4 | 2606 | 71.5 | |
Primary Level | 185 | 4.9 | 316 | 8.4 | 350 | 9.6 | |
Lower Secondary Level | 266 | 7.1 | 71 | 1.9 | 100 | 2.7 | |
Secondary Level | 192 | 5.1 | 167 | 4.5 | 218 | 6.0 | |
Higher Secondary | 77 | 2.1 | 115 | 3.1 | 178 | 4.9 | |
Intermediate And Above | 11 | 0.3 | 104 | 2.8 | 195 | 5.3 | |
Ethnicity | <0.001 | ||||||
Dalit Hill/Terai | 770 | 20.5 | 878 | 23.4 | 778 | 21.3 | |
Disadvantage Janajati/Hill/Terai/Non Dalit Terai | 464 | 12.4 | 259 | 6.9 | 214 | 5.9 | |
Relatively Advantaged Janajati | 28 | 0.7 | 130 | 3.5 | 119 | 3.3 | |
Upper caste Group | 2488 | 66.3 | 2483 | 66.2 | 2536 | 69.5 | |
Household wealth index | |||||||
Poorest | 1335 | 37.9 | 352 | 10.2 | 182 | 5.4 | <0.001 |
Poorer | 1030 | 29.3 | 592 | 17.1 | 577 | 17.1 | |
Middle | 548 | 15.6 | 723 | 20.9 | 937 | 27.7 | |
Richer | 446 | 12.7 | 833 | 24.1 | 784 | 23.2 | |
Richest | 161 | 4.6 | 952 | 27.6 | 897 | 26.6 | |
Expected food shortage for the coming months | |||||||
No | 1384 | 36.9 | 1004 | 26.8 | 1199 | 32.9 | <0.001 |
Yes | 2366 | 63.1 | 2746 | 73.2 | 2448 | 67.1 | |