Determinants of food insecurity in the rural farm households in South Wollo Zone of Ethiopia: the case of the Teleyayen sub-watershed

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of continuous variables

Variable	Food secure (n = 45)		Food insecure (n = 170)		Total sample (n = 215)		t value
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t value
Family size (AEU)	3.64	1.19	4.44	1.28	4.27	1.30	− 3.749*
Age of the household head (years)	40.51	13.96	44.78	11.42	43.89	12.09	− 2.125*
Livestock size	3.28	1.30	3.38	1.68	3.33	1.49	− 0.351
Agricultural labor force (numbers)	2.24	1.02	2.17	0.93	2.18	0.95	0.461
Household’s annual food requirements (kg)	843.48	325.23	733.96	235.18	788.72	280.20	2.55*