Table 6.

Truncated regression results for the household expenditure levels of outside food consumption.

Explanatory Variables	Male Head		Female Head		Total
	Coefficient	Robust SE	Coefficient	Robust SE	Coefficient	Robust SE
(ln) Age of Head (Years)	−0.215***	0.062	0.027	0.145	−0.152***	0.055
Education of Head
(1 = ) Primary	0.062 (6.26)	0.042	0.031 (2.63)	0.095	0.055 (5.57)	0.039
(1 = ) Secondary & Above	0.128*** (13.53)	0.042	0.203** (21.88)	0.099	0.130*** (13.81)	0.038
Employment Status of Head
(1 = ) Employed	0.026 (2.32)	0.084	−0.165 (-15.89)	0.128	0.020 (1.78)	0.061
Family Size (Total #Members)	0.147***	0.010	0.157***	0.024	0.154***	0.009
(ln) Total Food Expenditure (annual) (Bangladesh Taka)	0.124***	0.031	−0.072	0.047	0.057**	0.026
Livestock Owned (1 = ) Yes	−0.209*** (-18.93)	0.044	−0.116 (-11.53)	0.116	−0.215*** (-19.38)	0.040
Total Land Size (Hectare)	−0.003	0.002	−0.002	0.015	−0.002	0.002
Household Location (1 = ) Same district	−0.033 (3.40)	0.061	0.048 (4.29)	0.106	−0.028 (-2.88)	0.053
Constant	3.491***	0.574	5.619***	0.978	4.303***	0.479
Sigma	1.061***	0.011	1.095***	0.022	1.072***	0.010
N	4278		1107		5385
Wald chi2	288.64		67.12		360.79
Prob > chi2	.000		.000		.000

Notes: Outcome Variable: (ln) Total Outside Food Expenditure (past seven days) (Bangladesh Taka); P < .01***, p < .05**.

Values in parentheses indicate the percentage effects of the discrete explanatory variables on the (log) response variable in the semi-logarithmic truncated regression following the transformation suggested by Halvorsen and Palmquist [51] and Kennedy [52].