Summary statistics. Table 4 reports summary statistics for the households used in the empirical
analysis. The average earnings of the head and spouse of the household head represent 67% of
household total income, with another 10% of average household income being from transfers and
subsidies. Decomposing total household income by the type of activities, I nd that about 40%
of average household income is from agricultural-related activities, with around 80% of the sample
households engaging in farming and about half in raising livestock. For either health shock measure,
the average share of days with a severe illness within a household is a little over 2 percentage points,