Table 4 documents the results of the gender-based comparisons
of livelihood vulnerability between female (n = 44) and maleheaded
(n = 90) households (in actual measurement units). Table 5
presents male to female comparisons of standardized scores. Overall,
the results suggest little difference in vulnerability between
male and female-headed households (female-headed households
+0.02). Female-headed households had more vulnerable sociodemographic
profiles than male-headed households (+0.06) but
were less vulnerable than male-headed ones in terms of housing
and land tenure (0.04). The results (Table 5) also suggest a
6±0.02 difference in male-headed and female-headed scores for
health and food, livelihood strategies, social networks and natural
disaster/climate change variability. That said, the vulnerability of
female-headed households was significantly greater (p < 0.05) than
male-headed households in terms of members requiring dependent
care; having lower than average agricultural livelihood diversity
index (i.e. practices less types of livelihoods) and being more
income dependent on hunting/fishing.