Analyzing the contribution of crop diversification in improving household food security among wheat dominated rural households in Sinana District, Bale Zone, Ethiopia

Table 1 Summary of variables included to affect household food security status.

Variables	Variables unit and measurement	Variable class	Sign
Dependent variables
HFIAS	Household Food Insecurity Access Score	Continuous
DDS	Score of food group consumed	Continuous
Explanatory variables
CDI	Crop diversification index	Continuous	±
Gender	Household head, 1 = male, 0 = female	Discrete	±
Age	Age of household head in year	Continuous	±
Edu	Education in year of schooling	Continuous	+
Hsize	Size of household in number	Continuous	±
Lsize	Size of Farm in ha	Continuous	+
Iuse	Access to irrigation land, Yes = 1, No = 0	Continuous	+
Cuse	Access to credit, Yes = 1, No = 0	Discrete	+
Coops	Member to farmers cooperatives, Yes = 1, No = 0	Discrete	+
Market	Distance to local market in hour	Continuous	−
Nincome	Total annual income in birr	Continuous	+
TLU	Livestock holding in TLU	Continuous	+
Remit	Remittance, Yes = 1, No = 0	Discrete	+
Nonfarm	Participation on non-farm activities, Yes = 1, No = 0	Discrete	+
extenvisit	Extension contact in days per month	Continuous	+
Aginform	Access to agriculture information Yes = 1, No = 0	Discrete	+

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