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Table 5 Difference in income and expenditure among livelihood categories and household members (values are mean ± standard deviation)

From: Traditional gender inequalities limit pastoral women’s opportunities for adaptation to climate change: Evidence from the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia

Annual income and expenditure

Livelihood category

Household members

Agrarian

Pastoral

Agro-pastoral

Daughter

Husband

Son

Wives

Income

979.17 ± 4868.69

1739.75 ± 5364.77*

1681.36 ± 6616.11*

59.46 ± 442.80

5398.36 ± 1058.92*

25.26 ± 218.12

272 ± 117.62

Expenditure

2872.45 ± 1648.36

3415.71 ± 1941.94*

4762.13 ± 1489.55*

2644.50 ± 1349

4641.43 ± 2377*

3785.72 ± 1728

3470.30 ± 1354

Expenditure for clothes

784.93 ± 494.44

908.73 ± 615.77*

908.91 ± 408.53*

760.2 ± 470

780.83 ± 389

872.20 ± 529

1036.14 ± 624

Expenditure for food

1720.83 ± 899.64

1864.88 ± 1452.36

3522.41 ± 2599.11*

1635.47 ± 1075

2974.73 ± 1640*

2743.32 ± 3132*

1973.32 ± 1021

Expense for health

273.19 ± 810.04

620.17 ± 1141.88*

415 ± 832.02

194.41 ± 408

950.85 ± 1462*

224.81 ± 568

405.02 ± 180.12

Expenditure for entertainment

8.51 ± 84.88

65.09 ± 265.98*

4.07 ± 40.98

2.20 ± 20

48.28 ± 233*

3.68 ± 43

56.40 ± 24

Expenditure for education

69.02 ± 154.94*

44.97 ± 131.20

71.02 ± 196.36*

153.26 ± 188.56*

0 ± 0.00

262.19 ± 272.52*

0 ± 0.00

  1. *Values across rows are significantly different (P<0.01)