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

Nutrition Journal

Table 3 Proportion of stunted children in household by gender and food adoption status

		Household head gender:			Difference [F – M]
		Total	Female [F]	Male [M]	Difference [F – M]
Household adopted food fortification	Yes [Y]	0.253	0.242	0.257	−0.015
Household adopted food fortification	No [N]	0.294	0.302	0.290	0.012^c
Difference in means	[Y – N]	−0.040^a	− 0.060^a	− 0.033^a	− 0.027

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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