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. 2017 Dec 12;12(12):e0189022. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189022

Table 3. Determinants of dietary diversity scores.

Variables (1) (2) (3)
HDDSa CDDSa MDDWa
Coefficient P>|z| Coefficient P>|z| Coefficient P>|z|
Household size (persons) -0.002 0.775 0.047 0.172 0.033 0.121
(0.006) (0.034) (0.021)
Years of education of household head 0.016*** 0.002 0.061** 0.012 0.022* 0.080
(0.005) (0.024) (0.013)
Age of household head (years) -0.001 0.457 -0.016*** 0.001 -0.007** 0.018
(0.001) (0.005) (0.003)
Gender of the household head (= 1 if female) 0.051** 0.019 -0.243 0.148 -0.162 0.245
(0.023) (0.168) (0.140)
Participated food and nutrition training (= 1 if yes) 0.099** 0.016 0.099 0.617 0.082 0.457
(0.041) (0.198) (0.110)
Agricultural land area (hectares) 0.016*** 0.000 -0.013 0.377 0.030*** 0.000
(0.004) (0.016) (0.008)
Whether household grows vegetables (= 1 if yes) 0.044 0.280 -0.074 0.858 0.339** 0.020
(0.041) (0.417) (0.146)
Access to off-farm income (= 1 if yes) 0.004 0.941 0.129 0.171 0.054 0.573
(0.052) (0.095) (0.096)
District (= 1 if Mbarali) 0.036 0.484 -0.345 0.369 0.137 0.270
(0.052) (0.384) (0.125)
Constant 1.670*** 0.000 0.927* 0.089 1.003*** 0.000
(0.072) (0.545) (0.234)
Variance inflation factor (VIF)b 1.84 1.84 1.84
Observations 204 204 204

aRobust standard errors in parentheses. Cluster adjusted by villages.

Asterisks denote the level of significance at

*** p<0.01.

** p<0.05.

* p<0.1.

CDDS = Children’s Dietary Diversity Score (1–5 years old); MDD-W = Minimum Dietary Diversity Score for women (15–35 years old); HDDS = Household Dietary Diversity Score.

bVIF obtained after regress since collinearity is a property of the independent variables only. Similar results are reported in S2 Table.