The impact of food fortification on stunting in Zimbabwe: does gender of the household head matter?

Nutrition Journal

Table 2 Uptake of fortified foods by gender of the household head

Type of Food Fortification	Proxy of Food Fortification Adoption	Female [F]		Male [M]		Difference in means [F – M]
Type of Food Fortification	Proxy of Food Fortification Adoption	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
	Observations # (%)	7017	(27.7%)	18,280	(72.3%)
Mandatory	Ever heard about Fortified foods [1 if Yes, 0 if No]	0.112	0.316	0.123	0.328	−0.010^b
	Able to identify fortified foods on the market [1 if Yes, 0 if No]	0.105	0.306	0.118	0.322	−0.013^a
	Purchased any fortified food product in the past 30 days [1 if Yes, 0 if No]	0.152	0.359	0.179	0.384	−0.027^a
Supplementation	Fed child (6–23 months) meals with micronutrient powders in the past 30 days [1 if Yes, 0 if No]	0.046	0.209	0.049	0.216	−0.003
Biofortification	Ever heard about Bio fortified Crops [1 if Yes, 0 if No]	0.045	0.207	0.056	0.229	−0.011^a

Notes: Sample size is 25,297. The fifth column shows the results of two-tailed t-test for the difference in the means. ^a, ^b, and ^c indicate the 1, 5, and 10% levels of significance

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