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Food Security in Rural Cambodia and Fishing in the Mekong in the Light of Declining Fish Stocks

Appendix B
Supplementary statistics of the characteristics of fishing households
Table B1: Comparison of characteristics in the whole sample, fishing and non-fishing households; Two-sided t-tests for different variable means between fishers and
non-fishers, pooled sample 2013 and 2014; Significance Levels: * p<0.1, ** p<0.05, ***
p<0.01

Whole
sample

Variable name

1163

Number of observations (n)

non-fishing
403

fishing
760

Household size

5.22

4.83

5.43 ***

Female household head (dummy)

0.12

0.16

0.1 ***

Khmer (dummy)

0.82

0.85

0.8 **

Tropical Livestock Units (TLU) consumed
per capita

0.01

0.01

0.01

TLU sold per capita

0.1

0.1

0.11

Value of productive assets in 2005 PPP$

2665.27

2790.44

2598.9

Annual income per capita in 2005 PPP$

1061.77

1200.54

988.19 ***

Additional food expenditure per capita in
2005 PPP$

175.38

265.49

127.6 ***

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