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Table 2 Prevalence of household’s food accessibility, food shortage and mean days of food shortage by village type (30 days preceding the date of survey), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, 2015.

From: Does coal mining affect household food security? An empirical study of Dhanbad, India

 

Villages not affected by mining activity

Villages affected by mining activity

Total

Food accessibility

 Two square meals a day

9.1

3.8

6.5

 Three square meals a day

90.9

96.1

93.5

 Prevalence of Food shortage

51.9

39.4

45.7

Mean days of food shortage [± S.D]

5.1 [± 3.3]

7.4 [± 4.9]

6.1 [± 4.2]

N

208

208

416

  1. N total household sample, SD standard deviation