Table 2. Characteristics of the study population by food security status among pregnant Nigerian women aged 15–49 years, MICS6^a.

			Experiences of FI
	Study population		Food secure			Moderate FI			Severe FI
	Weighted		Weighted			Weighted			Weighted
Variable	N	%	n	%	95% CI	n	%	95% CI	n	%	95% CI	χ 2
Overall	3337	100	882	26.4	24.2-28.7	996	29.9	27.9-31.9	1459	43.7	41.3-46.1	<0.0001***
Individual-level factors
Age group (y)
15-24	962	28.9	294	30.6	26.7-34.7	277	28.2	25.3-32.6	391	40.6	36.6-44.8	10.0 *
25-34	1534	46.0	392	25.6	22.5-28.9	480	31.3	28.3-34.4	662	43.2	40.1-46.3
35+	840	25.2	195	23.2	19.0-28.1	239	28.5	24.8-32.4	406	48.3	43.7-52.9
Married/cohabiting status
No	110	3.3	20	18.0	9.9-30.3	35	32.3	20.0-47.6	55	49.8	36.9-62.8	1.9
Yes	3227	96.7	862	26.7	24.4-29.1	961	29.8	27.8-31.8	1404	43.5	41.2-45.9
Parity
0	505	15.1	181	36.0	30.4-42.0	127	25.1	20.2-30.8	196	38.9	33.0-45.1	30.4 ***
1-2	1120	33.6	318	28.4	24.9-32.1	336	30.0	26.7-33.5	466	41.6	37.9-45.5
3-4	831	24.9	214	25.8	21.4-30.7	259	31.1	27.6-34.8	358	43.1	38.7-47.6
≥5	881	26.4	168	19.1	16.1-22.4	275	31.2	27.3-35.4	438	49.8	45.4- 54.1
Health insurance coverage
No	3260	97.7	855	26.2	24.1-28.5	967	29.7	27.7-31.7	1438	44.1	41.7-46.5	0.2
Yes	77	2.3	27	35.0	18.1-56.8	29	37.5	22.9-54.8	21	27.4	15.0-44.7
Pregnancy intention
Planned	2600	77.9	682	26.2	23.7-28.9	783	30.1	27.9-32.4	1135	43.7	41.0-46.3	0.7
Unplanned	731	21.9	197	26.9	22.1-32.3	213	29.1	24.7-33.9	322	44.0	39.1-49.1
Household-level factors
Household members
≤ 5	1219	36.5	417	34.2	30.3-38.3	343	28.1	24.9-31.6	459	37.7	34.0-41.5	33.2 ***
> 5	2118	63.5	465	21.9	19.5-24.6	653	30.8	28.4-33.4	1000	47.2	44.4-50.1
Religion
Christian	1150	34.4	289	25.2	21.1-29.7	331	28.8	25.5-32.4	529	46.0	41.4-50.6	1.7
Non-Christian	2187	65.5	592	27.1	24.5-29.7	664	30.4	28.1-32.8	930	42.5	39.9-45.2
Children under 5 in household
None	879	26.3	259	29.5	25.3-33.9	249	28.3	24.1-32.8	371	42.3	37.6-47.1	0.5
1	1342	40.2	344	25.7	22.3-29.3	417	31.1	28.0-34.4	580	43.2	39.8-46.8
2+	1116	33.4	278	24.9	21.7-28.5	330	29.6	26.3-33.1	507	45.5	41.6-49.4
Household wealth index
Poorest	845	25.3	176	20.8	17.3-24.8	247	29.2	25.6-33.1	422	50.0	45.8-54.2	72.1 ***
Poorer	795	23.8	193	24.3	21.2-27.8	255	32.1	28.6-35.9	346	43.5	39.4-47.8
Middle	660	19.8	153	23.2	19.4 27.5	198	30.0	25.1-35.4	308	46.8	41.8-51.8
Richer	568	17.0	133	23.4	18.9-28.6	186	32.8	26.7-39.4	569	43.9	37.0-50.9
Richest	469	14.1	226	48.3	39.5-57.2	109	23.4	18.0-29.7	132	28.3	22.5-35.0
Community-level factors
Region
North-Central	488	14.6	111	22.9	19.1-27.2	142	29	24.6-34.4	233	47.9	42.0-53.8	0.05
North-East	594	17.8	152	25.6	21.3-30.5	167	28	24.4-32.1	275	46.2	41.4-51.2
North-West	1261	37.8	349	27.7	24.4-31.2	408	32	29.1-35.8	503	39.9	36.5-43.4
South-East	260	7.8	45	17.4	9.7-29.1	84	32	25.3-40.3	131	50.3	39.0-61.5
South-South	361	10.8	93	25.9	17.7-36.2	101	28	22.4-34.6	166	46.1	37.5-54.9
South-West	372	22.1	130	34.9	28.3-42.2	93	25	18.9-32.0	372	5.5	33.7-47.2
Place of residence
Rural	2232	66.9	562	25.2	22.9-27.7	675	30	28.1-32.5	994	44.6	41.9-47.2	0.3
Urban	1105	33.1	319	28.9	24.3-34.0	321	29	25.2-33.1	465	42.1	37.2-47.1
Community-level poverty
Low	1867	56.0	503	27.0	23.9-30.3	577	30.6	28.1-33.9	787	42.1	38.8-45.6	0.16
Middle	662	19.8	187	28.2	23.5-33.5	167	25.1	21.7-28.9	309	46.6	41.6-51.7
High	807	24.2	191	23.7	19.8-28.1	252	31.3	26.7-35.1	364	45.0	40.5-49.6

^aNotes: Data are n (%). All estimates are weighted for the survey’s complex sampling design

*p-Value < .05

**p-value < .01

***p-value < .001

χ² = Denotes Rao-Scott Chi-Square

^†May not total 100% due to missing values or rounding