Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe: does household head gender matter?

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 3 Background of households

Variable	Female [F]	Male [M]	Difference [F – M]
Household size	4.828	5.295	− 0.467***
Proportion of female members to household size	0.606	0.467	0.139***
Number of mentally ill household members	0.089	0.085	0.004
Number of chronically ill household members	0.077	0.074	0.003
Household income [USD]	128.521	190.687	− 62.167***
Province
Bulawayo	0.011	0.010	0.001
Manicaland	0.131	0.101	0.030***
Mashonaland Central	0.093	0.140	− 0.047***
Mashonaland East	0.141	0.143	− 0.002
Mashonaland West	0.095	0.139	− 0.044***
Matabeleland North	0.114	0.109	0.005**
Matabeleland South	0.139	0.095	0.044***
Midlands	0.127	0.140	− 0.013***
Masvingo	0.125	0.103	0.022***
Harare	0.023	0.019	0.004***
The household is located in rural areas [1 if yes]	0.867	0.855	0.012***

Notes: The fifth column shows the results of two-tailed t test for the difference in the means
***, **, and * indicate the 1, 5, and 10% levels of significance