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Table 4 Summary of Household Diet Diversity Score (HDDS; median and IQR)

From: Food security in rural Burkina Faso: the importance of consumption of own-farm sourced food versus purchased food

 

Yatenga (n = 200)

Seno (n = 200)

Significance

HDDS—lean period

6.0 (2.0)

3.5 (3.0)

*

HDDS—flush period

9.0 (1.0)

8.0 (4.0)

NS

HDDS from farm production—lean period

2.0 (2.0)

1.0 (1.0)

*

HDDS purchased—lean perioda

6.0 (2.0)

3.0 (3.0)

*

HDDS from farm production—flush period

3.0 (2.0)

3.0 (2.0)

*

HDDS purchased—flush period

7.0 (2.0)

7.0 (5.0)

NS

  1. *Provinces have differing central tendencies
  2. aObservations with no purchased food in the ‘lean’ period removed (n = 8 from Yatenga province)
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Agriculture & Food Security

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