Food safety and dietary diversity in African urban cities: evidence from Ghana

BMC Public Health

Table 7 Household health and diet related illness

	Dry season¹	Rainy season²	Total	Difference (2 − 1)
Suffered diarrhoea or vomiting (%)	9.195	7.882	8.539	-1.313
Illness related to food consumed away from home (%)^a	10.345	10.181	10.263	-0.164
Illness related to food consumed at home (%)^b	2.299	2.956	2.627	0.657
Difference between (a-b)	8.046***	7.225***	7.635***
Total number of households (N)	609	609	1218

*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1; t-test of diff. between illness resulting from food consumed away from home and food cooked at home are statistically significant
The superscripts indicate how the difference (2-1) or (a-b) are computed

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