Table 4 Decomposition analysis of...

Table 4

Decomposition analysis of rural-urban household food insecurity disparities

Covariates	FIAS		FIES
Covariates	Estimates	Share	Estimates	Share
Household’s age	−0.875^***	3.84	−0.643^***	2.09
Gender of the household (Male^R)	0.643^**	7.25	0.832^**	6.43
Religion (Muslim^R)	−0.972	3.96	−0.563	−0.43
Dependency ratio	10.736^***	4.32	7.745^**	5.98
Household size	13.477^**	12.04	15.294^**	11.98
Household’s educational level (None^R)
Primary	−4.591	5.29	−3.671	2.89
High school	−8.391^***	11.28	13.693^***	7.82
Above high school	−0.267	1.26	−1.892	2.68
Household head’s marital status (Single^R)
Married	0.298	3.29	0.398	2.17
Divorced	7.278	2.74	5.671	1.86
Widowed	13.537^***	12.58	9.182^***	10.16
Average annual income	−8.293	2.64	−11.431	1.59
Market information (None^R)	3.278	1.38	5.272	2.08
Distance to the nearest market	18.382	3.29	9.385	3.29
Humanitarian aid (None^R)	−16.496^***	17.38	10.297^***	19.76
Household’s employment status (None^R)	−12.492^**	9.37	18.393^*	6.98
Damage due to armed-conflict (None^R)	9.297^***	58.39	13.985^***	49.58
Total gap	33.25	100	38.97	100
Explained gap	27.76	66.85	35.43	56.53
Unexplained gap	38.64	33.15	31.29	44.47
Number of observations	1,800		1,800

Covariates	FIAS		FIES
Covariates	Estimates	Share	Estimates	Share
Household’s age	−0.875^***	3.84	−0.643^***	2.09
Gender of the household (Male^R)	0.643^**	7.25	0.832^**	6.43
Religion (Muslim^R)	−0.972	3.96	−0.563	−0.43
Dependency ratio	10.736^***	4.32	7.745^**	5.98
Household size	13.477^**	12.04	15.294^**	11.98
Household’s educational level (None^R)
Primary	−4.591	5.29	−3.671	2.89
High school	−8.391^***	11.28	13.693^***	7.82
Above high school	−0.267	1.26	−1.892	2.68
Household head’s marital status (Single^R)
Married	0.298	3.29	0.398	2.17
Divorced	7.278	2.74	5.671	1.86
Widowed	13.537^***	12.58	9.182^***	10.16
Average annual income	−8.293	2.64	−11.431	1.59
Market information (None^R)	3.278	1.38	5.272	2.08
Distance to the nearest market	18.382	3.29	9.385	3.29
Humanitarian aid (None^R)	−16.496^***	17.38	10.297^***	19.76
Household’s employment status (None^R)	−12.492^**	9.37	18.393^*	6.98
Damage due to armed-conflict (None^R)	9.297^***	58.39	13.985^***	49.58
Total gap	33.25	100	38.97	100
Explained gap	27.76	66.85	35.43	56.53
Unexplained gap	38.64	33.15	31.29	44.47
Number of observations	1,800		1,800

Note(s): ^Rdenotes to reference. This share is expressed as a percentage; ^***p < 0.01, ^**p < 0.05, and ^*p < 0.1

Source(s): Authors’ computations, 2024

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