Analysis of poverty, income inequality and their effects on food insecurity in southern Ethiopia

Table 5 Binary logistic model result

Variables	Coef	Std. Err	Z-score	Odd ratio
Sex	− 0.29	0.539	− 0.53	0.75
Age-square	0.001	0.000	0.56	1.00
Education	− 0.18	0.061	− 2.90^***	0.84
Martial single	− 0.07	1.049	− 0.07	0.93
Widowed	0.47	0.805	0.59	1.60
Divorced	3.77	1.668	2.26^**	43.57
Family size	0.44	0.146	2.98^***	1.55
Savings	0.001	0.001	− 2.55^**	1.32
Occupation
Unemployed	0.87	0.855	1.01	2.38
Agriculture	− 0.19	0.692	− 0.27	0.83
Trader	− 3.95	1.165	− 3.39^***	0.22
Wage worker	− 0.90	1.149	− 0.78	0.41
Remittance	0.001	0.002	− 1.00	1.00
Access to credit	0.53	0.864	0.62	1.70
House ownership	− 1.68	0.543	− 3.10^***	0.19
Electric	− 0.40	0.641	− 0.62	0.67
Tap water	0.07	0.548	0.12	1.07
_Cons	0.16	1.601	0.10	1.17
LR Chi²(17)	167.50^***
Log likelihood	− 56.49
Pseudo-R²	0.58

^{*, ** and ***} are statistical significance level at 1%, 5% and 10%, respectively
Source: model result (2019)

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