Determinants of Rural Household Food Security Status in North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Table 5

Factors affecting the probability of household-level food security status.

Logistic regression			Number of obs = 796
			Lr chi2(10) = 829.37
			Pseudo R-squared = 0.7767
Log pseudo likelihood = −119.19659
Variable	dy/dx	Std. Err.	z	Sig
Sex	0.010	0.017	0.560
Age	0.002	0.001	2.120
Education	0.021	0.010	2.100
Family size	−0.133	0.034	−3.950
Saving	0.023	0.020	1.140
Off-farm activity participation	0.048	0.014	3.428
Cultivated land	0.010	0.007	1.500
Distance from market	−0.046	0.021	−2.190
Credit access	0.005	0.013	0.420
Tropical livestock	0.002	0.002	1.240
Ln income	0.557	0.141	3.96

, , . () dy/dx is for discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1.