Household food security in Maputo: the role of Gendered Access to education and employment

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Table 1. Investigation Variables.

Variable	Level	Values
HFIAP	Binary	Food Secure	Food Insecure
Household Head Sex	Binary	Male	Female
Household Head Education	Binary	Formally Educated	Not Formally Educated
Household Head Employment	Binary	Employed	Unemployed

Table 2. Frequency Distribution of Independent Variables Against the Household Food Insecure Access Prevalence (HFIAP) Scale.

		HFIAP
		Food Secure		Food Insecure
		n	%	n	%
Household Head Sex	Male	404	30.8%	909	69.2%
	Female	147	23.8%	470	76.2%
Household Head Education	Formally Educated	467	30.9%	1046	69.1%
	Not Formally Educated	36	13.7%	226	86.3%
Household Head Employment	Employed	468	31.5%	1020	68.5%
	Unemployed	78	18.7%	340	81.3%

Table 3. Odds Ratio Calculations of Independent Variables Against the HFIAP.

		95% Confidence interval (C.I.)		Bootstrapped 95% C.I.
Independent Variables	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper	Lower	Upper	Pearson’s chi-square	Df	P-Value (2-sided)	N
Household Head Sex**	1.421	1.141	1.769	1.200	1.904	9.923	1	0.002	1,930
Household Head Education**	2.803	1.939	4.051	1.969	4.199	32.253	1	<.001	1,775
Household Head Employment**	2.000	1.528	2.618	1.583	2.848	26.122	1	<.001	1,906

* p < .05.

** p < .01.

Table 4. Adjusted Odds Ratio (O.R.) Calculations Against the HFIAP using Binary Logistic Regression Analysis (n = 1754).

		95% Confidence interval		Original	Bootstrapped
Independent Variables	Adjusted O.R.	Lower	Upper	P-Value	P-Value
Household Head Sex	1.152	0.900	1.473	0.261	0.222
Household Head Education**	2.396	1.632	3.516	<.001	.001
Household Head Employment**	1.792	1.328	2.418	<.001	.001

* p < .05.

** p < .01.

Figure 1. Bayesian Network of Conditionally Dependent Relationships Between Investigation Variables (n = 2,071).

Figure 2. CHAID Decision Tree Categorizing Household Head Sex Using Employment and Education Status (n = 2,071).