Volume 3 (Issue 1) 2023 Article 2

ABSTRACT:

This study analyzed socioeconomic determinant of food insecurity among integrated households in Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, Nigeria. It covered 15 and five peripheral wards of Maiduguri Metropolitan and Jere LGAs respectively. A two-stage sampling procedure was adopted to draw respondents for the study; Purposive selection of ten large concentrations of integrated household wards and proportionate random selection of 376 integrated household. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the data collected. The descriptive statistics used were frequency tables, percentages, mean and standard deviation while inferential statistics included Tobit regression analysis. The socioeconomic characteristics of integrated households’ revealed majority (97.9%) male dominance, with 59.89 years average age of the household heads. The majority of the household heads (94.40%) were married. High proportion of household heads(62.00%) attained Islamic education. Those that practiced agricultural production, as primary occupation constitutes only 33.51% and 61.54% of these households were sustained by this occupation for less than 4 months. Only 3.31% of the households were food secure and sustained by own production for 12 months and above. Income diversified households composed 3.9%. The mean duration of households stay in the community was 29.4 years with 43% of households having 29 – 43 years. The results of influences of socioeconomic variables on the household food insecurity revealed that all th eseven (7) variables have various degrees of effects on integrated household food insecurity level except for married heads and years in education as indicated by their levels of insignificance. However, age and sex are the only variable with positive coefficients 0.2363 and 9.04e-06 respectively. The coefficient for household duration of stay was significant at 5%. Nevertheless, significant disparities exist between samples means difference of food insecurity levels and sample means difference of dependency ratio of integrated households in the study area. Households with larger dependency ratios were likely to be severely food insecure.