Table 3 Distribution of the studies by methods and thresholds used for measuring CHE
Methods of CHE measurement adopted | Single-country studies, n (%) | Multi-country studies, n (%) | All studies, n (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LIC | LwMIC | UMIC | |||
Budget share only | 4 (36.4) | 34 (39.1) | 8 (20.0) | 6 (75.0) | 52 (35.6) |
Actual food expenditure only | 2 (18.2) | 5 (5.7) | 14 (35.0) | 0 (0.0) | 21 (14.4) |
Normative food expenditure only | 0 (0.0) | 23 (26.4) | 15 (37.5) | 0 (0.0) | 38 (26.0) |
Any one method | 6 (54.5) | 62 (71.3) | 37 (92.5) | 6 (75.0) | 111 (76.0) |
Budget share and actual food expenditure | 3 (27.3) | 14 (16.1) | 1 (2.5) | 1 (12.5) | 19 (13.0) |
Budget share and normative food expenditure | 1 (9.1) | 8 (9.2) | 2 (5.0) | 1 (12.5) | 12 (8.2) |
Any two methods | 4 (36.4) | 22 (25.3) | 3 (7.5) | 2 (25.0) | 31 (21.2) |
Three methods: Budget share, actual food expenditure and normative food expenditure | 1 (9.1) | 3 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (2.7) |
Any method (total) | 11 (100.0) | 87 (100.0) | 40 (100.0) | 8 (100.0) | 146 (100.0) |
Budget share (total) | 9 (81.8) | 59 (67.8) | 11 (27.5) | 8 (100.0) | 87 (59.6) |
Actual food expenditure (total) | 6 (54.5) | 22 (25.3) | 15 (37.5) | 1 (12.5) | 44 (30.1) |
Normative food expenditure (total) | 2 (18.2) | 34 (39.1) | 17 (42.5) | 1 (12.5) | 54 (37.0) |
Thresholds applied for CHE measurementa | |||||
Budget share | |||||
 10% | 9 (100.0) | 54 (91.5) | 8 (72.7) | 4 (50.0) | 75 (86.2) |
 25% | 6 (66.7) | 22 (37.3) | 4 (36.4) | 1 (12.5) | 33 (37.9) |
 Other | 5 (55.6) | 26 (44.1) | 6 (54.5) | 4 (50.0) | 41 (47.1) |
Actual food expenditure | |||||
 40% | 6 (100.0) | 20 (90.9) | 15 (100.0) | 1 (100.0) | 42 (95.5) |
 Other | 4 (66.7) | 15 (68.2) | 3 (20.0) | 1 (100.0) | 23 (52.3) |
Normative food expenditure | |||||
 40% | 2 (100.0) | 33 (97.1) | 16 (94.1) | 1 (100.0) | 51 (94.4) |
 Other | 1 (50.0) | 4 (11.8) | 4 (23.5) | 1 (100.0) | 10 (18.5) |