Food consumption patterns, nutrient adequacy, and the food systems in Nigeria

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Correlates of household dietary diversity

	Country	Rural	Urban
Mobile phone (0/1)	0.20***	0.19***	0.24
Mobile phone (0/1)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.15)
Electricity (0/1)	0.13**	0.12	0.20*
Electricity (0/1)	(0.06)	(0.07)	(0.12)
Improved sources of water (1/0)	0.12*	0.06	0.24**
Improved sources of water (1/0)	(0.06)	(0.07)	(0.10)
Irrigation (0/1)	0.17	0.36*	−0.31
Irrigation (0/1)	(0.20)	(0.20)	(0.28)
Improved sanitation, community (%)	0.23**	0.33***	0.02
Improved sanitation, community (%)	(0.10)	(0.11)	(0.16)
Health center/hospital in community (0/1)	−0.11**	−0.08	−0.15**
Health center/hospital in community (0/1)	(0.05)	(0.07)	(0.07)
Distance to nearest market (KMs)	0.00	0.00	0.00
Distance to nearest market (KMs)	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)
Fraction of agriculture within 1 km buffer^a	0.23*	0.30*	0.15
Fraction of agriculture within 1 km buffer^a	(0.13)	(0.17)	(0.28)
Constant	6.91***	6.77***	7.21***
Constant	(0.31)	(0.32)	(0.62)
Observations	4040	2721	1319
r²	0.50	0.52	0.38

Controls include state and month of interview fixed effects; dummies for agro-ecological zones; distance to nearest population center; age, sex, and education of the household head (post-primary dummy); household size; dependency ratio; ratio of expenditure on MAH to expenditure on food at home; dummy for HH income quintile; and dummy for rural/urban for country specification. Note: standard errors clustered at enumeration area-level and presented in brackets
^aThe variable was rescaled by dividing by 100 for readability
***p<0.01, **p<0.05, *p<0.1