Household Level Determinants of Food Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia

Table 4

Logistic regression result of one predictor variable on household (HH) food insecurity status (bivariate analysis) at 25% level of significance.

Predictors (factors)	Category	Unadjusted odds ratio (OR)	St. Err.	[75% CI]	p-value
Sex of HH head: female (ref)	Male	0.435	0.084	[0.395 0.480]	≤0.001
Age of HH head: 65+(ref)	15–29	0.853	0.134	[0.731 0.995]	0.235
	30–64	0.655	0.111	[0.576 0.745]	≤0.001
Marital status of HH head : never married (ref)	Married	0.585	0.112	[0.403 0.851]	0.005
	Others ^a	1.840	0.381	[1.226 2.762]	0.003
Literacy status of HH head: illiterate (ref)	Literate	0.750	0.075	[0.669 0.796]	≤0.001
Employment status of HH head: no (ref)	Yes	0.693	0.081	[0.632 0.761]	≤0.001
HH access to credit: no (ref)	Yes	0.950	0.099	[0.48 1.065]	0.605
AID assistance: no (ref)	Yes	0.783	0.095	[0.701 0.873	0.010
Was HH affected by death shock: no (ref)	Yes	1.630	0.280	[1.181 2.249]	0.081
Was HH affected by drought shock: no (ref)	Yes	0.618	0.109	[0.545 0.701]	≤0.001
Was HH affected by illness shock: no (ref)	Yes	0.84	0.096	[0.882 1.098]	0.867
Land ownership: no (ref)	Yes	1.055	0.101	[0.939 1.185]	0.598
Owning nonagricultural business: no (ref)	Yes	0.616	0.158	[0.513 0.739]	0.002
Remittance: no (ref)	Yes	0.750	0.099	[0.670 0.840]	0.004
Dependency ratio: (76–100] (ref)	[0–25]	1.459	0.097	[1.305 1.632]	≤0.001
	(25–50]	0.975	0.094	[0.875 1.087]	0.790
	(50–75]	0.686	0.109	[0.605 0.777]	0.001
Total live stock owned: >10 (ref)	0	3.508	0.111	[3.088 3.986]	≤0.001
	1–5	2.545	0.093	[2.287 2.831]	≤0.001
	6–10	1.815	0.104	[1.611 2.045]	≤0.001

aWidowed, divorced, and separated.