Vulnerability to seasonal food insecurity as an exposure to risk: the case of the Southern Province of Zambia

Table 2 Number of households by maize purchase pattern

		Over 3 years		08/09		09/10		10/11
		Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Purchase		68	48	27	57	25	53	16	34
Purchase only until December (‘‘buy low’’)	One or two times	30	21	15	32	8	17	7	15
Purchase only until December (‘‘buy low’’)	More than two times	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	4
Purchase after December (‘‘buy high’’)	One or two times	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
Purchase after December (‘‘buy high’’)	More than two times	35	25	12	26	17	36	6	13
Does not purchase		73	52	20	43	22	47	31	66
Total		141	100	47	100	47	100	47	100

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