Household ICT Utilization and Food Security Nexus in Nigeria

Table 4

Logit regression estimates (outcome variable: food security).

Variable	All households	Male households	Female households	Urban households	Rural households
Constant	-1.0611	-0.9120	0.5837	-3.3638	-3.4034
	(2.4039)	(3.4796)	(6.7399)	(3.0181)	(2.7563)
	[0.659]	[0.7930]	[0.9310]	[0.2650]	[0.2170]
Productivity	1.4386	2.009	0.8645	2.1954	1.0286
	(0.5722)	(0.7793)	(0.9113)	(1.0488)	(0.6651)
	[0.012]	[0.0100]	[0.3430]	[0.0360]	[0.1220]
Labor hour	0.0806	-0.7981	0.8804	0.9283	0.0941
	(0.3370)	(0.5249)	(0.4895)	(0.5437)	(0.4046)
	[0.8110]	[0.1280]	[0.0720]	[0.0880]	[0.8160]
Labor wage	0.6236	0.4016	0.8683	0.2224	0.8172
	(0.2428)	(0.3595)	(0.3559)	(0.3686)	(0.3067)
	[0.0100]	[0.2640]	[0.0150]	[0.5460]	[0.0080]
ICT	-2.958607	0.6828	-10.3423		-2.414905
	(1.9419)	(2.6761)	(9.0702)		(1.9976)
	[0.1280]	[0.7990]	[0.2540]		[0.2270]
Assistance	0.4248	1.226882	0.1008	-0.7311	0.3966
	(0.5967)	(0.9478)	(0.8965)	(1.2308)	(0.6428)
	[0.4770]	[0.1960]	[0.9110]	[0.5520]	[0.5370]
Household characteristics
Educational qualification	0.0803	0.0812	0.0999	0.0223	0.0805
	(0.0343)	(0.0560)	(0.0515)	(0.0456)	(0.0399)
	[0.0190]	[0.1470]	[0.0520]	[0.6250]	[0.0430]
State of origin	-0.0269	-0.0140	-0.0450	-0.0423	-0.0260
	(0.0114]	(0.0161)	(0.0173)	(0.0220)	(0.0132)
	[0.0190]	[0.3840]	[0.0090]	[0.0540]	[0.0490]
Sector	-0.5789	-0.7721	-0.5049
	(0.2641)	(0.3872)	(0.3975)
	[0.0280]	[0.0460]	[0.2040]
Age	-0.0153	-0.0223	-0.0142	0.0117	-0.0211
	(0.0071)	(0.0122)	(0.0094)	(0.0117)	(0.0086)
	[0.031]	[0.0680]	[0.1320]	[0.3180]	[0.0140]
Sex	-0.3155			-0.4898	-0.2562
	(0.222]			(0.4058)	(0.2562)
	[0.1560]			[0.2270]	[0.3170]
Marital status	-0.0972	-0.1486	-0.0678	0.1111	-0.1450
	(0.0542)	(0.0920)	(0.0744)	(0.0962)	(0.0636)
	[0.0730]	[0.1060]	[0.3620]	[0.2480]	[0.0230]
Enumeration Area	-0.0004	-0.0005	-0.0003	-0.0002	-0.0004
	(0.0002)	(0.0002)	(0.0003)	(0.0003)	(0.0002)
	[0.0230]	[0.0330]	[0.2550]	[0.5070]	[0.0480]
Log likelihood	-238.1668	-119.2972	-110.8883	-73.9609	-181.6230
observation	377	190	187	116	289
Probability	0.0000	0.0109	0.0003	0.0799	0.0007
Pseudo-R2	0.0841	0.0930	0.1350	0.2320	0.0812

Note: , , and represent statistical significance at 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively. Standard errors and values are in the parentheses () and [], respectively. Source: authors’ computations.