Table 5.

Logit model of food expenditure (E).

Significant Variables	Reference Category	Beta (B)	p-Value	Exp (B)
Gender
Female	Male	−0.458	0.008	0.632
Age
40–59 years old	18–39 years old	−0.572	0.006	0.564
More than 60 years old		−0.675	0.015	0.509
Employment status
Sick leave	Student	−1.617	0.054	0.199
Unable to work		−1.485	0.060	0.226
Family structure
There are children aged 7–12 years in the household	No	0.797	0.079	2.218
Experiences
Experienced food shortages during the lockdown	Did not	0.524	0.017	1.688
Did not have symptoms, so did not test	Tested positive	−1.265	0.078	0.282
Did not know anyone who has been diagnosed or died due to COVID-19	Knew someone	−0.784	0.002	0.457
Shopping places
Buy food on retailers’ websites during the lockdown	Supermarkets	1.520	0.015	4.574
Mood
Feel a little reassured	None of this feeling	0.794	0.004	2.213
Feel moderately reassured		0.582	0.044	1.789
Feel moderately angry		−0.859	0.017	0.424
Feel a great deal of angry		−0.722	0.095	0.486
Risk preference
Risk-neutral	Risk-loving	−0.505	0.066	0.604
Risk-averse		−0.528	0.009	0.590
Trust in information sources
Government information regarding COVID-19 was perceived to be a little trustworthy	Not trustworthy at all	−0.425	0.092	0.654
News information regarding COVID-19 was perceived to be very trustworthy		−1.021	0.030	0.360
Food security risk perception
A little unlikely to face food shortages in the next 6 months	Very unlikely	0.543	0.036	1.722
Risk perception of COVID-19
A little unlikely to contract COVID-19	Very unlikely	0.819	0.004	2.268
Financial risk perception
Feel threatened moderately about financial situation	Not at all	−0.836	0.033	0.434
Feel threatened considerably about financial situation		−0.981	0.035	0.375
Feel threatened a great deal about financial situation		−1.502	0.009	0.223
Knowledge regarding COVID-19
A higher level of objective knowledge		0.944	0.075	2.570
Percentage of correct classification		70.3%
Hosmer–Lemeshow’s goodness of fit		0.311