Table 3 Relationship between continuous variables with HH food security status (N = 200; FS = 72; FIS = 128)
From: Household food insecurity and coping strategies in Southern Ethiopia
| Variable | Food Security status |
Total Mean | T value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIS | FS | |||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Age of the HH | 39.67 | 6.98 | 48.68 | 6.93 | 42.92 | 8.76*** |
| Education status of HH head | 2 | 1.91 | 6 | 3.76 | 4 | 13.707*** |
| Family size | 8 | 1.98 | 6 | 1.97 | 7 | -4*** |
| Number of oxen | 0.234 | 0.46 | 1.375 | 0.72 | 0.625 | 13.63*** |
| Cultivated land size in Ha | 0.4 | 0.34 | 0.7 | 0.46 | 0.515 | 4.975*** |
| Tropical livestock unit (TLU) | 3.16 | 3.09 | 4.29 | 3.38 | 3.57 | 2.38** |
| Distance to the market | 86 | 49 | 47 | 46 | 72 | -5.493*** |
| Credit amount | 398 | 1062 | 2142 | 2789 | 1026 | 6.31*** |
| Remittance received | 369 | 1209 | 2499 | 3528 | 1136 | 6.22*** |
| Income from off-farm activities (ETB) | 1457 | 2370 | 2799 | 3044 | 1737 | 4.27*** |