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.