Table 4.
Association between women’s frequent consumption of folk species of wild edible plants and sociodemographic characteristics (n 584), Sidi Bouzid governorate, Tunisia, 2014–2015
| Univariate analysis* | Multivariate analysis† | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle tertile‡ (n 193) | Upper tertile‡ (n 194) | Middle tertile‡ (n 193) | Upper tertile‡ (n 194) | |||||||||
| OR | 95 % CI | P value | OR | 95 % CI | P value | OR | 95 % CI | P value | OR | 95 % CI | P value | |
| Women’s characteristics | ||||||||||||
| Age (years) | ||||||||||||
| 20–29 | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – |
| 30–38 | 2·17 | 1·11, 4·26 | 0·03 | 1·90 | 1·00, 3·62 | 0·12 | 2·33 | 1·12, 4·87 | 0·01 | 1·95 | 1·00, 3·80 | 0·04 |
| 39–49 | 1·50 | 0·78, 2·87 | 0·97 | 1·70 | 0·88, 3·30 | 0·47 | 1·34 | 0·62, 2·88 | 0·65 | 1·49 | 0·66, 3·37 | 0·83 |
| Marital status (married) | 0·91 | 0·60, 1·40 | 0·68 | 1·38 | 0·80, 2·37 | 0·25 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Parity | 1·00 | 0·92, 1·11 | 0·89 | 1·05 | 0·91, 1·22 | 0·49 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Professional occupation (yes) | 0·97 | 0·48, 1·93 | 0·92 | 1·45 | 0·86, 2·45 | 0·16 | 0·81 | 0·39, 1·69 | 0·57 | 1·00 | 0·55, 1·82 | 0·99 |
| Implication in agricultural or livestock-rearing activities (yes) | 1·04 | 0·80, 1·36 | 0·77 | 1·01 | 0·51, 1·98 | 0·98 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Level of education | ||||||||||||
| No schooling | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – |
| Primary | 0·87 | 0·54, 1·38 | 0·94 | 0·70 | 0·44, 1·01 | 0·02 | 0·70 | 0·43, 1·13 | 0·85 | 0·62 | 0·34, 1·12 | 0·18 |
| Secondary and university | 0·73 | 0·35, 1·53 | 0·49 | 1·12 | 0·62, 2·02 | 0·22 | 0·44 | 0·21, 0·95 | 0·08 | 0·66 | 0·35, 1·26 | 0·45 |
| Household characteristics | ||||||||||||
| Area of residence (urban) | 1·32 | 0·95, 1·84 | 0·10 | 1·47 | 0·80, 2·75 | 0·22 | 1·46 | 0·93, 2·27 | 0·10 | 1·90 | 1·02, 3·54 | 0·04 |
| Access to food coming from a family orchard (yes) | 0·94 | 0·45, 1·93 | 0·86 | 1·01 | 0·54, 1·90 | 0·97 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Access to food coming from family livestock (yes) | 1·29 | 0·86, 1·95 | 0·22 | 1·88 | 1·20, 2·94 | 0·01 | 1·52 | 0·94, 2·46 | 0·09 | 1·97 | 1·27, 3·03 | 0·00 |
| Access to food coming from a family garden (yes) | 1·41 | 1·01, 1·98 | 0·04 | 3·10 | 1·80, 5·32 | 0·00 | 1·37 | 1·02, 1·84 | 0·04 | 2·82 | 1·57, 5·05 | 0·00 |
| Asset-based wealth index | ||||||||||||
| Lower tertile | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – | 1·00 | Ref. | – |
| Middle tertile | 1·36 | 0·81, 2·29 | 0·86 | 1·19 | 0·79, 1·80 | 0·21 | 1·58 | 0·86, 2·89 | 0·67 | 1·27 | 0·83, 1·96 | 0·43 |
| Upper tertile | 1·71 | 0·96, 3·05 | 0·14 | 2·21 | 1·37, 3·54 | 0·00 | 2·07 | 1·04, 4·14 | 0·08 | 2·16 | 1·33, 3·50 | 0·00 |
Ref, referent category.
*
Variables with P value less than 0·20 were selected for the multivariate analysis (shown in bold font).
†
OR with P value less than 0·05 were considered significant (shown in bold font).
‡
The referent category is the lower tertile of frequency of consumption of wild plants over the year.