Table 4 Determinants of food security status in the surveyed households
Logit (Y = Poor) | OLS (Y = FCS) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coeff. | SE | P > z | Coeff. | SE | P > t | |
Constant | − 0.94 | 1.98 | 0.64 | 87.96*** | 14.45 | 0.00 |
Gender of household head (1 = male, 0 = otherwise) | − 0.01 | 0.54 | 0.99 | − 1.38 | 4.04 | 0.73 |
Age (yrs) of household head | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.60 | − 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.66 |
Years of schooling of household head | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.42 | 0.14 |
Number of adults in the household | − 0.31** | 0.15 | 0.04 | 1.96*** | 0.78 | 0.01 |
Number of children in the household | − 0.99*** | 0.29 | 0.001 | 4.26*** | 1.16 | 0.00 |
Size of crop land (Ha) | 0.002 | 0.02 | 0.92 | − 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.84 |
Number of heads of cattle kept | − 0.001 | 0.01 | 0.82 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.93 |
Number of shoats kept | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.61 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.23 |
Claim that a household had suffered food unavailability during the last year (1 = yes, 0 = otherwise) | 0.95* | 0.49 | 0.06 | − 9.49** | 4.20 | 0.02 |
District (control = SE) | ||||||
Central | 1.82** | 0.76 | 0.02 | − 10.40*** | 4.22 | 0.01 |
Chobe | 1.98*** | 0.72 | 0.01 | − 13.26*** | 4.36 | 0.00 |
Main activity of the household head | ||||||
Crop farming | 0.17 | 0.57 | 0.76 | 2.69 | 3.88 | 0.49 |
Livestock keeping | − 2.75*** | 0.63 | 0.00 | 15.54*** | 4.51 | 0.00 |
Formal employment | − 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.36 | 7.54* | 4.39 | 0.09 |
Business | − 0.83 | 1.12 | 0.46 | 8.35 | 6.17 | 0.18 |
Retired | − 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.33 | 6.55 | 4.59 | 0.15 |
Access to grazing gland (0,1) | − 2.26** | 0.99 | 0.02 | 38.17*** | 7.37 | 0.00 |
Access to cropping land (0,1) | 1.21 | 0.84 | 0.15 | − 6.70 | 4.77 | 0.16 |
N = 541 | N = 541 | |||||
LR χ2(10) = 83.4 | F(18, 522) = 6.06 | |||||
Prob > χ2 = 0.00 | Prob > F = 0.00 | |||||
Pseudo R 2 = 0.36 | R-squared = 0.17 | |||||
Log likelihood = − 74.2 | Adj R-squared = 0.14 | |||||
Root MSE = 37.26 | ||||||