The government of Kenya cash transfer for orphaned and vulnerable children: cross-sectional comparison of household and individual characteristics of those with and without

David Ayuku; Lonnie Embleton; Julius Koech; Lukoye Atwoli; Liangyuan Hu; Samuel Ayaya; Joseph Hogan; Winstone Nyandiko; Rachel Vreeman; Allan Kamanda; Paula Braitstein

doi:10.1186/1472-698X-14-25

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Table 2 Household Food Insecurity Scores (HFIAS)† among CT, DSL, and SSL households

From: The government of Kenya cash transfer for orphaned and vulnerable children: cross-sectional comparison of household and individual characteristics of those with and without

In the past 30 days, did:	CT	DSL	SSL	P-value
In the past 30 days, did:	N = 101	N = 110	N = 89	P-value
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
You worry that the household (HH) would not have enough food?
Never/rarely	31(30.7)	21 (19.1)	25 (28.1)	0.128
Sometimes/often	70 (69.3)	89 (80.9)	64 (71.9)	0.128
Was any HH member not able to eat the kinds of foods they preferred because of a lack of resources?
Never/rarely	29 (29.6)	23 (21.5)	21 (23.6)	0.387
Sometimes/often	69 (70.4)	84 (78.5)	68 (76.4)	0.387
Did any HH member eat just a few kinds of food day after day due to a lack of resources?
Never/rarely	37 (36.6)	30 (27.3)	23 (25.8)	0.198
Sometimes/often	64 (63.4)	80 (72.7)	66 (74.2)	0.198
Did any HH member eat food that they preferred not to eat because of a lack of resources to obtain other types of food?
Never/rarely	38 (37.6)	42 (38.2)	39 (43.8)	0.632
Sometimes/often	63 (62.4)	68 (61.8)	50 (56.2)	0.632
Did any HH member eat a smaller meal than you felt the child needed because there was not enough food?
Never/rarely	40 (39.6)	29 (26.4)	38 (42.7)	0.034
Sometimes/often	61 (60.4)	81 (73.6)	51 (57.3)	0.034
Did any household member eat fewer meals in a day because there was not enough food?
Never/rarely	40 (39.2)	31 (28.2)	38 (42.7)	0.075
Sometimes/often	61 (60.4)	79 (71.8)	51 (57.3)	0.075
Was there ever no food at all in your household because there were not resources to get more?
Never/rarely	70 (69.3)	77 (70.0)	68 (76.4)	0.494
Sometimes/often	31 (30.7)	33 (30.0)	21 (23.6)	0.494
Did any HH member go to sleep at night hungry because there was not enough food
Never/rarely	77 (76.2)	88 (80.0)	77 (86.5)	0.196
Sometimes/often	24 (23.8)	22 (20.0)	12 (13.5)	0.196
Did any HH member go a whole day without eating anything because there was not enough food?
Never/rarely	78 (77.2)	84 (76.4)	76 (85.4)	0.240
Sometimes/often	23 (22.8)	26 (23.6)	13 (14.6)	0.240
Score	13.01	13.84	12.73	0.340

CT: Cash Transfer, SSL: Same sub-Location (as that receiving the Cash Transfer), DSL: Different sub-Location (from that receiving the Cash Transfer).
†The HFIAS score is a count measure of the degree of food insecurity in the household over the previous 30 days. The maximum score is 27.

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