Food Expenditure and Food Consumption before and during Ramadan in Moroccan Households

Table 2

Food expenditure before and during Ramadan according to standard of living (n = 340).

Food expenditure	Standard of living
	Low	Middle	High
Before Ramadan (MAD)	1000 [1000; 1200]	2000 [1500; 2000]	3000 [2500; 3000]	<0.001
During Ramadan (MAD)	1500 [1000; 2000]	2500 [2000; 3000]	4000 [3000; 5000]	<0.001
Rate of variation (%)	50 [20; 100]	39 [25; 52]	40 [20; 67]	0.35

Values are expressed as median and quartile; test of Kruskal–Wallis (the mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level); MAD = Moroccan dirham (official currency of Morocco).