Table 5 OLS estimates of the impact of gender on food security
From: Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe: does household head gender matter?
Variables | Hunger score | Poor food consumption score | Never consumes minerals | Never consumes proteins | Never consumes iron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(I) | (II) | (IV) | (V) | (IV) | |
Household head is female | − 0.00889 | 0.0156*** | − 0.00518 | 0.0213*** | 0.0284*** |
| Â | (0.0115) | (0.00477) | (0.00476) | (0.00467) | (0.00584) |
Age of household head [years] | − 0.00381*** | − 0.00166*** | − 0.000820*** | − 0.000980*** | − 0.000810*** |
| Â | (0.000267) | (0.000111) | (0.000108) | (0.000109) | (0.000135) |
Married living together | − 0.0197 | 0.0173* | − 0.0122 | 0.00916 | − 0.000982 |
| Â | (0.0233) | (0.00885) | (0.00905) | (0.00868) | (0.0112) |
Married living apart | − 0.0982*** | − 0.0103 | − 0.0103 | − 0.00985 | − 0.0250** |
| Â | (0.0255) | (0.00994) | (0.0103) | (0.00979) | (0.0126) |
Divorced/separated | 0.0841*** | 0.0287*** | − 0.00539 | 0.0183* | 0.00491 |
| Â | (0.0286) | (0.0110) | (0.0108) | (0.0107) | (0.0135) |
Widowed/widower | 0.0490* | 0.0187* | − 0.0165* | 0.0110 | 0.00937 |
| Â | (0.0258) | (0.00980) | (0.00986) | (0.00960) | (0.0122) |
Primary | − 0.0820*** | − 0.0425*** | − 0.0136*** | − 0.0398*** | − 0.0411*** |
| Â | (0.0135) | (0.00551) | (0.00463) | (0.00548) | (0.00650) |
ZJC | − 0.195*** | − 0.0957*** | − 0.0403*** | − 0.0847*** | − 0.0894*** |
| Â | (0.0154) | (0.00629) | (0.00562) | (0.00619) | (0.00759) |
O’ level | − 0.264*** | − 0.117*** | − 0.0608*** | − 0.104*** | − 0.129*** |
| Â | (0.0146) | (0.00593) | (0.00521) | (0.00583) | (0.00723) |
A’ level | − 0.352*** | − 0.159*** | − 0.0898*** | − 0.134*** | − 0.169*** |
| Â | (0.0191) | (0.00799) | (0.00841) | (0.00777) | (0.00989) |
Diploma/certificate after primary | − 0.367*** | − 0.139*** | − 0.0910*** | − 0.119*** | − 0.178*** |
| Â | (0.0297) | (0.0107) | (0.0141) | (0.0109) | (0.0160) |
Diploma/certificate after secondary | − 0.371*** | − 0.141*** | − 0.0948*** | − 0.131*** | − 0.199*** |
| Â | (0.0213) | (0.00765) | (0.0105) | (0.00753) | (0.0114) |
Graduate/post-graduate | − 0.324*** | − 0.0900*** | − 0.0530*** | − 0.0879*** | − 0.148*** |
| Â | (0.0290) | (0.0103) | (0.0126) | (0.0103) | (0.0150) |
Household size | 0.0230*** | 0.00196*** | − 0.000422 | 0.00137** | 0.00636*** |
| Â | (0.00173) | (0.000691) | (0.000672) | (0.000676) | (0.000847) |
Proportion of female household members | − 0.0224 | 0.00222 | 0.00243 | 0.0151** | 0.0187** |
| Â | (0.0173) | (0.00712) | (0.00708) | (0.00700) | (0.00878) |
Number of mentally ill household members | 0.0217* | 0.00184 | 0.00596 | 0.00561 | 0.0110* |
| Â | (0.0128) | (0.00482) | (0.00438) | (0.00464) | (0.00571) |
Number of chronically ill household members | 0.126*** | 0.0244*** | 0.000663 | 0.0105** | 0.0123** |
| Â | (0.0141) | (0.00531) | (0.00470) | (0.00502) | (0.00623) |
Household income [USD] | − 0.000225*** | − 8.88e−05*** | − 5.53e−05*** | − 7.67e−05*** | − 0.000146*** |
|  | (9.42e−06) | (3.50e−06) | (4.31e−06) | (3.25e−06) | (5.60e−06) |
The household is located in rural areas [1 if yes] | 0.214*** | 0.138*** | 0.0190*** | 0.113*** | 0.316*** |
| Â | (0.0134) | (0.00431) | (0.00373) | (0.00430) | (0.00570) |
| Â | (0.0133) | (0.00587) | (0.00556) | (0.00568) | (0.00713) |
Constant | 0.882*** | 0.294*** | 0.778*** | 0.244*** | 0.317*** |
| Â | (0.0502) | (0.0152) | (0.0139) | (0.0154) | (0.0208) |
Observations | 64,779 | 65,950 | 65,950 | 65,950 | 65,950 |
R-squared | 0.063 | 0.065 | 0.405 | 0.051 | 0.119 |