Contribution of wetland resources to household food security in Uganda

Table 1 Household characteristics that influence susceptibility to food insecurity among households adjacent to wetlands in Uganda

Dependent variable*	Units	Coef.	Std. Err.	z	P >z
Household characteristics
Age	Years	−0.003	0.002	−1.80	0.071
Household female headed	0/1	0.129	0.045	2.85	0.004
Education level	Years	−0.117	0.028	−4.14	0.000
Household size	Number	0.013	0.006	2.09	0.037
Length of stay in the area	Years	0.001	0.001	0.66	0.508
Distance to wetland	km	0.061	0.043	1.40	0.160
Location in south-western farmlands	0/1	−0.155	0.083	−1.87	0.062
Location in Lake Victoria Crescent	0/1	−0.130	0.078	−1.66	0.097
Primary occupation is farming	0/1	−0.029	0.068	−0.43	0.669
Primary occupation is formal employment	0/1	0.038	0.105	0.36	0.719
Household collects wetland products	0/1	0.229	0.117	1.97	0.049
Number of observations					236
Log likelihood					−83.1
LR χ² (11)					42.04
Prob >χ²					0.000
Pseudo R2					0.202

*Dependent variable is a binary variable depicting whether or not a household had experienced food insecurity (1 = Household had experienced food insecurity in the last five years; 0 = Otherwise).

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