Household Level Determinants of Food Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia

Table 5

Estimates of binary logistic regression and determinants of household’s food security in rural Ethiopia.

Factors	Category	AOR	St. Err.	p-value	95% CI
Sex of HH head	Male	.84	.099	.139	[.667 1.059]
	Female (ref)	1	.	.	.
Marital status of HH head	Married	.78	.158	.221	[.524 1.161]
	Others a	1.588	.373	.049	[1.001 2.518]
	Never married (ref)	1	.	.	.
AID assistance	Yes	1.339	.142	.006	[1.089 1.648]
	No (ref)	1	.	.	.
HH affect by drought	Yes	.64	.076	.000	[.507 .808]
	No (ref)	1	.	.	.
HH owned nonfarm business	Yes	.655	.109	.011	[.472 .908]
	No (ref)	1	.	.
HH dependency ratio	[0–25] (ref)	1	.
	(25–50]	.862	.093	.169	[.697 1.065]
	(50–75]	.68	.084	.002	[.534 .867]
	(75–100]	.872	.092	.196	[.709 1.073]
Total livestock	0	(ref)	1	.	.
	1–5	.838	.102	.146	[.661 1.063]
	6–10	.644	.086	.001	[.496 .836]
	>10	.362	.045	.000	[.284 .461]
Age of HH head	15–29 (ref)		1		.
	30–64	.786	.086	.027	[.635 .973]
	65+	.848	.132	.29	[.624 1.151]
HH head literacy status	Yes	.702	.062	.000	[.590 .834]
	No (ref)	1	.	.
Constant	-	3.412	.809	0.000	[2.144 5.430]

a Widowed, divorced, and separated, p-value < 0.05, and p-value <0.001.