From: Cash for assets during acute food insecurity: an observational study in South Sudan
Overall prevalence | Outcome: Worsened Hunger 1 | Outcome: Worsened Coping Strategy Adoption 2 | ||||
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% | (95% CI) | P-value | % | (95% CI) | P-value | |
Cohort A/B | 32.2% | (29.5–34.8) | < 0.001 | 45.3% | (42.5–48.1) | < 0.001 |
Control Group | 27.8% | (24.2–31.5) | 48.1% | (44.1–52.2) | ||
Cohort C | 18.7% | (14.3–23.1) | 27.3% | (22.3–32.4) | ||
Associated characteristics | OR | (95% CI) | P-value | OR | (95% CI) | P-value |
Demographic characteristics | ||||||
Any formal education (including incomplete) | 0.74 | (0.55–0.98) | 0.037 | 1.21 | (0.93–1.56) | 0.160 |
Household size | 0.99 | (0.95–1.03) | 0.652 | 1.05 | (1.01–1.09) | 0.020 |
Crowding (5 + HH members per room) | 0.85 | (0.69–1.05) | 0.121 | 0.84 | (0.69–1.03) | 0.091 |
Living in current community < 5 years | 1.26 | (0.88–1.81) | 0.210 | 1.06 | (0.75–1.50) | 0.748 |
Household income and expenditures | ||||||
Expenditure quartile | ||||||
Bottom quartile | Reference | Reference | ||||
2nd quartile | 1.13 | (0.88–1.45) | 0.339 | 0.68 | (0.54–0.85) | 0.001 |
3rd quartile | 1.37 | (1.05–1.80) | 0.022 | 0.67 | (0.51–0.86) | 0.002 |
Top quartile | 1.14 | (0.84–1.55) | 0.396 | 0.65 | (0.49–0.87) | 0.004 |
Income generation activities | ||||||
Small business | 1.10 | (0.86–1.42) | 0.436 | 1.12 | (0.88–1.42) | 0.352 |
Crop/vegetable farming | 1.19 | (0.93–1.53) | 0.168 | 1.24 | (0.98–1.58) | 0.075 |
Livestock | 0.90 | (0.69–1.17) | 0.438 | 0.59 | (0.46–0.76) | < 0.001 |
Casual/daily labor (temporary) | 0.85 | (0.65–1.13) | 0.262 | 0.70 | (0.54–0.91) | 0.008 |
Market stall, vendor, or sales | 1.04 | (0.77–1.41) | 0.788 | 0.38 | (0.28–0.52) | < 0.001 |
More than one type of income source | 1.05 | (0.77–1.44) | 0.748 | 1.13 | (0.83–1.52) | 0.439 |
Any savings | 1.12 | (0.90–1.41) | 0.312 | 0.89 | (0.71–1.10) | 0.287 |
Purchased livestock | 1.50 | (1.16–1.92) | 0.002 | 1.63 | (1.27–2.09) | < 0.001 |
Savings/lending group member | 0.77 | (0.55–1.09) | 0.139 | 0.73 | (0.53–1.01) | 0.060 |