Table 3.

Association between food insecurity and respondents characteristics.

Variables	2014–2015		2016–2017		2018–2019
	χ2 Statistics	Cramer’s V	χ2 Statistics	Cramer’s V	χ2 Statistics	Cramer’s V
Education	99.8643 *	0.2235	54.7420 *	0.1654	213.6431 *	0.1875
Gender	8.7498 *	0.0661	3.7105 *	0.0431	8.5438 *	0.0729
Marital status	71.3536 *	0.1889	35.8146 *	0.1338	67.7044 *	0.1804
Household composition	31.5470 *	0.1256	20.4791 *	0.1012	26.4947 *	0.1129
Location of dwelling	4.1054	0.0260	5.7812	0.0538	0.3467	0.0129
Status of employment	87.2894 *	0.2089	71.6900 *	0.1893	29.3828 *	0.1189
Income quintile	139.0146 *	0.2636	129.0974 *	0.2541	62.6946 *	0.1736
Age	t = 2.9388 *	Cohen’s d = 0.1527	t = 4.2891 *	Cohen’s d = 0.2335	t = 3.3725 *	Cohen’s d = 0. 2715

* means statistical significance at 0.05.