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

Table 6 Multinomial logit model

Variables	Food secure			Moderately food insecure			Severely food insecure
Variables	Coef	Std.err	M.eff	Coef	St.er	M.eff	Coef	St.err	M.eff
Gender	0.645	0.523	0.079	0.281	0.465	0.008	0.271	0.509	0.002
Age	− 0.029***	0.018	− 0.005	0.007	0.017	0.002	0.020	0.020	0.003
Mstatus	1.332***	0.781	0.121	1.264	0.781	0.113	1.013	0.832	0.030
Edu	0.496**	0.225	0.079	0.079	0.179	0.034	0.003	0.222	0.011
Hsize	− 0.011	0.075	− 0.006	0.070	0.073	0.010	0.056	0.088	0.004
Lsize	0.068	0.116	0.011	0.047	0.111	0.008	− 0.085	0.133	− 0.013
Iuse	− 0.512	0.546	− 0.012	− 1.469**	0.817	− 0.217	− 0.093	0.895	0.059
Cuse	0.886**	0.441	0.101	0.293	0.466	− 0.020	0.787	0.543	0.054
Coops	0.226	0.380	0.059	− 0.461	0.333	− 0.079	− 0.174	0.379	− 0.008
Market	0.026	0.017	0.002	− 0.003	0.016	− 0.005	0.091*	0.021	0.010
Nincome	0.193	0.206	0.061	− 0.219	0.213	− 0.014	− 0.800*	0.274	− 0.088
TLU	0.013	0.036	0.005	− 0.082**	0.039	− 0.015	0.028	0.039	0.006
Remit	− 0.338	0.449	− 0.115	0.912**	0.394	0.131	0.897	0.459	0.076
Nonfarm	− 0.367	0.402	− 0.044	− 0.464	0.373	− 0.072	0.294	0.448	0.061
Prodpyear	0.663	0.542	0.072	0.697	0.488	0.087	− 0.019	0.516	− 0.047
agrinform	0.257	0.450	− 0.015	− 0.468	0.395	0.098	− 0.850**	0.437	0.040
CDI	− 0.472	0.312	− 0.029	0.818*	0.304	− 0.025	0.689**	0.355	− 0.066
_cons	− 2.620	1.627		− 2.432	1.524		− 5.551	1.708
Log likelihood = − 440.689			Number of observation =					384
			LR Chi² [49] =					122.17
			Prob > Chi² =					0.0000
			Pseudo R² =					0.1217

^*, **, and *** indicate statistical significance at 1, 5, and 10% probability levels, respectively

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