Table 3.
Factors correlated with growing of food among residents of Gauteng City Region Observatory in South Africa (2015 Quality of Life survey).
| Variable | Parameter Estimates | * H-L Gof p-Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growing Food | Coeff | SE | # p-Value | 95%CI | 0.072 | |
| SAMPI x | ||||||
| 1st Quartile | ref | |||||
| 2nd Quartile | 0.001 | 0.050 | 0.977 | −0.098 | 0.100 | |
| 3rd Quartile | 0.086 | 0.063 | 0.179 | −0.040 | 0.211 | |
| 4th Quartile | 0.152 | 0.049 | 0.002 | 0.056 | 0.248 | |
| Do you own a place of dwelling? | ||||||
| Own dwelling | Ref | |||||
| Renting from private | −0.667 | 0.069 | 0.000 | −0.802 | −0.531 | |
| Renting from government | −0.254 | 0.095 | 0.008 | −0.442 | −0.066 | |
| Free RDP house | 0.288 | 0.054 | 0.000 | 0.181 | 0.394 | |
| Transfer deed | −0.085 | 0.092 | 0.359 | −0.266 | 0.096 | |
| Rent free | 0.060 | 0.075 | 0.426 | −0.088 | 0.207 | |
| Occupy vacant dwelling | 0.096 | 0.104 | 0.359 | −0.109 | 0.300 | |
| Other | 0.174 | 0.111 | 0.119 | −0.044 | 0.392 | |
| My health prevents daily work | ||||||
| Always | Ref | |||||
| Some of the time | −0.617 | 0.076 | 0.000 | −0.767 | −0.446 | |
| Hardly ever | −0.649 | 0.081 | 0.000 | −0.807 | −0.490 | |
| Never | −0.430 | 0.074 | 0.000 | −0.574 | −0.286 | |
| Important to look after environment | ||||||
| Strongly agree | Ref | |||||
| Agree | −0.053 | 0.043 | 0.216 | −0.138 | 0.031 | |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 0.156 | 0.068 | 0.022 | 0.023 | 0.289 | |
| Disagree | 0.131 | 0.088 | 0.139 | −0.043 | 0.304 | |
| Strongly disagree | 0.049 | 0.183 | 0.788 | −0.310 | 0.408 | |
| Past year, adult skipped a meal | ||||||
| Never | Ref | |||||
| Seldom | 0.157 | 0.076 | 0.040 | 0.007 | 0.306 | |
| Sometimes | 0.130 | 0.059 | 0.029 | 0.014 | 0.246 | |
| Often | 0.289 | 0.130 | 0.027 | 0.034 | 0.544 | |
| Always | 0.130 | 0.200 | 0.516 | −0.262 | 0.523 | |
| Main source of water | ||||||
| Piped water | Ref | |||||
| Borehole/well | 1.289 | 0.163 | 0.000 | 0.969 | 1.608 | |
| Rainwater/tank | 0.486 | 0.372 | 0.192 | −0.244 | 1.216 | |
| River/dams | 0.799 | 0.550 | 0.146 | −0.278 | 1.877 | |
| Water tank/truck | 0.274 | 0.172 | 0.111 | −0.063 | 0.611 | |
| Other | −0.188 | 0.276 | 0.497 | −0.728 | 0.353 | |
| A person in household receives a social grant | ||||||
| No | Ref | |||||
| Yes | 0.092 | 0.047 | 0.048 | 0.001 | 0.184 | |
| Birthplace | ||||||
| Gauteng | Ref | |||||
| Migrant from another province | 0.148 | 0.045 | 0.001 | 0.061 | 0.236 | |
| Migrant from another country | 0.314 | 0.800 | 0.000 | 0.158 | 0.471 | |
| Number of people in household | ||||||
| 1–3 people | Ref | |||||
| 4–6 people | −0.089 | 0.046 | 0.056 | −0.179 | 0.002 | |
| 7 and above | 0.002 | 0.071 | 0.980 | −0.137 | 0.141 | |
| Membership of club or social club | ||||||
| No, not any club or social | Ref | |||||
| Yes, any club or social club | 0.210 | 0.039 | 0.000 | 0.132 | 0.287 | |
| Population grouping/Race | ||||||
| Blacks | Ref | |||||
| Coloured | −0.226 | 0.121 | 0.062 | −0.463 | −0.012 | |
| Indian/Asian | −0.504 | 0.200 | 0.012 | −0.896 | −0.112 | |
| White | −0.061 | 0.069 | 0.373 | −0.196 | 0.073 | |
| Other | −0.386 | 0.700 | 0.580 | −1.754 | 0.981 | |
| Age group | ||||||
| 18–35 | Ref | |||||
| 36–49 | 0.075 | 0.048 | 0.117 | −0.019 | 0.168 | |
| 50–64 | 0.271 | 0.053 | 0.000 | 0.167 | 0.375 | |
| 65 and above | 0.441 | 0.079 | 0.000 | 0.285 | 0.596 | |
| Self-rated health | ||||||
| Poor SRH | Ref | |||||
| Good SRH | −0.216 | 0.067 | 0.001 | −0.346 | −0.085 | |
x: South African Multidimensional Poverty Index; *: Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness of fit test p-value; CI: 95% Confidence Interval; #: Fisher’s exact p-values; Coeff: Coefficients (Parameter estimates).