Table 1.

Coefficients and standard errors for the determinants of FIES score across the globe—2014

FIES score	World	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania
Gender
Male	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)
Female	.05605***	0.00783	.06568*	− 0.0044	.23407***	0.23932
Age	.03146***	.01993***	.05518***	.01226***	.06243***	.07199*
Age square	− .00039***	− .00024***	− .00063***	− .00022***	− .00068***	− .00108***
Education
Primary	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)
Secondary	− .50938***	− .32929***	− .79553***	− .43808***	− .87977***	− 0.29261
Tertiary	− 1.1724***	− .96729***	− 1.4741***	− .99448***	− 1.6601***	− 1.0591**
Poverty
Extreme poverty	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)
Not extreme poverty	− 1.0008***	− 1.0121***	− .93468***	− .94736***	− 1.1175***	− 0.20898
Number of children	.08756***	.03126***	.16641***	.13996***	.15637***	.23278***
Marital status
Single	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)
Married	− .17719***	− .23703***	− .34366***	.14235***	− .24323***	− .6859***
Widowed, divorced, separated	.3581***	.2428***	0.01577	.74386***	.3883***	0.31754
Other		.44471***	.13465**	.85076***	− 0.05505	− .62713*
Location of the household
Farm, rural location	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)	(base)
Small town	− .13821***	− .2181***	− .13696***	− 0.0368	− 0.03792	0.24221
Large city	− .2073***	− .50952***	− .29923***	− .10746***	.18031***	− 0.25124
Suburb of a large city	− .26527***	− .30009***	− .40343***	− .26223***	− 0.04989	− 0.05358
World regions
Africa	(base)
America	− .46048***
Asia	− .9273***
Europe	− 1.3622***
Oceania	− 1.7284***

Source: Authors’ elaboration on FIES data

*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001