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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2011 Sep 29;73(10):1534–1542. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.004

Table 2.

Regression model predicting household 2008 food insecurity score; pooled model, and separate models by area: urban, semi-urban, and rural. Standard errors in parentheses. Negative coefficients indicate variables associated with lower food insecurity in 2008.

Variable Full sample Urban Semi-urban Rural
Constant 3.65 (0.10)* 3.69 (0.18)* 3.45 (0.23)* 3.85 (0.28)*
2005 food insecurity score 0.14 (0.01)* 0.13 (0.03)* 0.21 (0.03)* 0.08 (0.06)
Wealth index −0.85 (0.05)* −0.92 (0.08)* −0.76 (0.11)* −0.36 (0.26)
Wealth × 2005 food insecurity 0.09 (0.02)* 0.06 (0.03)* 0.13 (0.04)* 0.03 (0.08)
Social capital −0.02 (0.01)* −0.01 (0.01) −0.03 (0.02) −0.00 (0.01)
Portfolio diversity 0.07 (0.03)* 0.13 (0.08) −0.01 (0.08) 0.06 (0.03)*
Female headed, yes 0.16 (0.09) 0.21 (0.14) −0.03 (0.17) 0.19 (0.21)
Own plot of land, yes −0.51 (0.12)* −0.11 (0.35) −0.18 (0.30) −0.61 (0.18)*
Other household stressors, yes 0.23 (0.02)* 0.27 (0.14) 0.16 (0.16) 0.26 (0.09)*
N 2605 936 691 978
Model F 108 53.4 31.5 5.28
P <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01
R2 0.25 0.32 0.27 0.04
*

P < 0.05.