Categorizing households into different food security states in Nigeria: the socio-economic and demographic determinants

Table 2 Categorizing households into different food security states

Categorization of households after combining food security indicators	Food security indicators		Proportion of household under different states (%)	Discrete variable representing food security states [FS_states]
	DDS	FOOD_exp	Proportion of household under different states (%)
Completely food insecure households	Never satisfy	Never satisfy	15.74	FS_states = 3
Transitory food insecure households	Never satisfy	Satisfy	23.84	FS_states = 2
Transitory food insecure households	Satisfy	Never satisfy	17.88	FS_states = 1
Completely food secure households	Satisfy	Satisfy	42.44	FS_states = 0

Note: A transitory food insecure e households are those who are partially food secure based on one indicator; satisfy implies that food security indicators greater than threshold, never satisfy implies that food security indicators less than threshold