Household ICT Utilization and Food Security Nexus in Nigeria

Table 1

Variable description and measurement.

Variables	Description	Measurement
Food security status	Measures the food security status of the household	=1 if food secured and 0 otherwise
Mobile phone utilization	Measure of ICT
Labor hour	Hours worked per day on the farm	Natural logarithm of hours worked
Labor wage	Wages paid by households to labor	Natural logarithm of wages paid by households
Educational qualification	Highest qualification attained	Polychotomous variablee (see Table 2 for details)
Age	Age in completed years	Years
Marital status	Marital status of household head	Polychotomous variable (see Table 2 for details)
State of origin	State of origin of the household	Polychotomous variable (see Table 2 for details)
Enumeration area	Location of household	,
Sector	Area study is conducted
Sex	Sex of household head	,
Assistance	Support received by households	Polychotomous variable (see Table 2 for details)

Source: authors’ compilation.