Food security in rural Burkina Faso: the importance of consumption of own-farm sourced food versus purchased food

Table 6 Household diet diversity accessed through purchased channel (mixed-effects negative binomial regression)

	Lean period^a	Flush period
Intercept	1.23 (0.98, 1.47)*	1.82 (1.48, 2.13)*
Household head literacy^a	0.03 (− 0.07, 0.13)	0.01 (− 0.07, 0.09)
Household head gender^c	0.08 (− 0.12, 0.26)	0.02 (− 0.13, 0.17)
Household inhabitants (adult eq.)	0.01 (0.00, 0.02)*	0.00 (− 0.01, 0.01)
Gross farm income (‘000 USD year⁻¹)	0.00 (0.00, 0.01)	0.00 (0.00, 0.00)
Off-farm income earned^b	0.11 (0.00, 0.23)*	0.04 (− 0.06, 0.15)
Relative female control (> 40% calories year⁻¹)	0.02 (− 0.17, 0.21)	− 0.07 (− 0.21, 0.07)
Number of crop species	0.04 (0.00, 0.09)*	0.01 (− 0.02, 0.05)
Number of livestock species	− 0.02 (− 0.05, 0.02)	0.01 (− 0.07, 0.09)
Province^d	− 0.36 (− 0.53, − 0.18)*	0.00 (− 0.37, 0.38)
Off-farm income earned: province	0.20 (0.03, 0.36)*	NS

Estimates are presented as posterior β estimate and 95% credible interval (CI)
* CI does not cross zero
^aObservations with no purchased food in the ‘lean’ period removed (n = 8 from Yatenga province)
^bReference category for dichotomous variable is ‘no’ (0), alternative is ‘yes’ (1)
^cReference category is ‘male’, alternative is ‘female’
^dReference category is Yatenga province, alternative is Seno

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