Analysis of households’ vulnerability to food insecurity and its influencing factors in East Hararghe, Ethiopia

Journal of Economic Structures

The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)

Table 2 Three-step Feasible Generalized Least Squares result for determinant of vulnerability to food insecurity (N = 408).

Variables	Log food consumption expenditure			Variance of food consumption expenditure
Variables	Coef.	Robust Std. Err.	t	Coef.	Robust Std. Err.	t
Sex	− 0.017	0.065	− 0.26	− 0.073	0.042	− 1.75*
Age	− 0.003	0.002	− 1.75*	0.001	0.001	0.72
Education	− 0.001	0.005	− 0.16	− 0.001	0.002	− 0.25
Adult equivalent	− 0.107	0.014	− 7.65***	0.002	0.006	0.29
Dependence ratio	1.93E−04	1.82E−04	1.06	1.98E−05	8.57E−05	0.23
Annual income	1.94E−07	2.20E−06	0.09	1.06E−08	9.14E−07	0.01
Off-farm activity	− 0.003	0.039	− 0.08	− 0.002	0.019	− 0.1
Use of fertilizer	0.005	0.045	0.1	− 0.004	0.018	− 0.23
Use of improved seed	0.129	0.045	2.89***	0.026	0.020	1.28
Use of irrigation	0.057	0.037	1.53	− 0.025	0.018	− 1.39
Cultivated land	0.243	0.134	1.81*	− 0.012	0.071	− 0.17
Adoption of SWC	0.100	0.038	2.62***	0.022	0.019	1.13
Total Asset	0.000	0.000	0.94	2.65E−07	1.81E−07	1.46
Livestock TLU	0.015	0.012	1.25	− 0.006	0.006	− 1.03
Crop diversification	0.008	0.024	0.33	− 0.014	0.011	− 1.23
Coping strategy index	− 0.003	0.004	− 0.68	0.001	0.002	0.40
Number of sick	0.038	0.028	1.39	− 0.006	0.014	− 0.40
Received credit	0.094	0.057	1.66*	0.020	0.028	0.71
Contact with DA	2.90E−04	0.009	0.03	4.70E−04	0.004	0.12
_cons	8.384	0.122	68.68***	0.162	0.060	2.68***
F(19, 388) = 8.12				F(19, 388) = 1.51
Prob > F = 0				Prob > F = 0.0769
R-squared = 0.3041				R-squared = 0.0437
Root MSE = 0.33456				Root MSE = 0.1633