Does escaping the multidimensional poverty line improve family food security? Evidence from rural Vietnam

Table 5 The differences in mean values of variables used in the econometric model in 2016

Variables	Escaped poverty		Poverty		Difference
Variables	Mean	S.D	Mean	S.D	Mean	S.E
Dependent variables
HDDS	5.18	1.58	5.03	1.60	0.15	0.16
Per capita expenditure on food (1,000 VND/person/month)	246.00	200.29	209.66	148.98	36.34**	18.36
Independent variables
Male headed households	0.76	0.43	0.66	0.48	0.10**	0.05
Kinh ethnicity	0.46	0.50	0.36	0.48	0.10*	0.05
Household head age (year)	53.86	16.15	52.84	17.18	1.02	1.68
Schooling years of household head (year)	5.71	3.92	5.17	4.09	0.54	0.40
The household head got an illness	0.23	0.42	0.18	0.39	0.05	0.04
Household size (people)	4.34	2.04	4.28	1.99	0.06	0.20

The monetary value was converted to the base year of 2016; ** and * indicates significance at 5% and 10%, respectively

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