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Table 3 Socio-economic and demographic determinants of households being different food-poverty states

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

Explanatory variables

Probability of food insecure HH based on DDS indicator only

Probability of food insecure HH based on FOODexpindicator only

Probability of food insecure HH from both indicators

Coefficients

Std. error

Coefficients

Std. error

Coefficients

Std. error

LOG_HHINCOMEa

−0.5658***

0.1331

−4.4065***

0.1115

−3.4135***

0.1213

LOG_HHSIZE

0.4718***

0.0759

−0.7135***

0.0648

−0.4732***

0.0722

LOG_EDUCATION

0.0263**

0.0103

0.1417***

0.0200

0.0824***

0.0112

D_OCCUPATION (farming)

0.2788***

0.0688

−0.6453***

0.0653

0.7501

0.0737

D_GENDER (male)

−0.1029

0.0649

−0.0186

0.0724

0.0273

0.0798

D_HOMEPRODUCEDONLY

1.5369***

0.5955

1.6638***

0.5321

1.6620***

0.5451

D_PURCHASEONLY

−0.2780***

0.0695

−0.0930**

0.0447

−0.4131***

0.0698

D_AGE<25

−0.2322*

0.1340

−0.0628

0.1789

0.1205

0.1764

D_AGE25-29

−0.1940**

0.0849

−0.1075

0.1014

−0.1834*

0.1093

D_AGE30-34

−0.2683***

0.0734

−0.3341***

0.0771

−0.2709***

0.0818

D_AGE35-39

−0.3199***

0.0703

−0.2984***

0.0684

−0.3526***

0.0745

D_AGE40-44

−0.1847***

0.0689

−0.0926

0.0640

−0.1503**

0.0699

D_RURAL

0.2324***

0.0735

−0.5887*

0.0700

0.0204

0.0804

D_SOUTH-SOUTH

−0.7338***

0.0778

−0.1636**

0.0838

−0.5022***

0.0897

D_SOUTH-EAST

−1.0018***

0.0824

−0.3004***

0.0962

−0.7490***

0.1024

D_SOUTH-WEST

−0.3327***

0.0775

−0.8411***

0.0871

−1.0147***

0.0929

D_NORTH-CENTRAL

−0.7022***

0.0833

−0.2828***

0.0856

−0.6943***

0.0930

D_NORTH-WEST

−0.4174***

0.0796

−1.0142***

0.0858

−0.8237***

0.0886

Constant

5.8412***

1.4659

45.3757***

1.2039

34.0435***

1.3198

  1. ***, **, *Implies that the estimated parameters are significantly different from zero at 1, 5, and 10% significance level, respectively. Figures in parentheses are standard error
  2. aWe use income of household as instrument on total expenditure taken as a proxy for household income in the study