Women in household decision-making and implications for dietary quality in Bhutan

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 5 Linear estimation of association between gender equality in decision-making and dietary diversity indicators

	FVS		HDDS
Variables	Coefficient	Robust SE	Coefficient	Robust SE
GEDI	1.326***	0.355	0.411***	0.125
Head age [years]	− 0.013	0.026	− 0.004	0.009
Member with highest education [years]	0.044	0.076	0.010	0.028
Household size	0.676**	0.310	0.206*	0.107
Dependency ratio	− 2.417	1.791	− 1.124*	0.669
Farm size [log]	− 0.251	0.422	− 0.067	0.123
Production diversity	0.212	0.159	0.168***	0.055
Distance to the nearest farm road [min]	− 0.045*	0.026	− 0.009	0.011
Soil quality	2.679***	0.543	0.462**	0.197
Observations	213		213
Adjusted R squared	0.249		0.381

Estimations include location dummies to control for Gewog level characteristics. Source: Authors’ estimation
***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1