The Impact of Some Socio-Economic Variables in Food Security Status for the Population of Salamieh District/Syria
2020
Dibiat, Nibal | Razzouk, Talal | Dhehibi, Boubaker
The objective of the study is to assess the status of food security and it's relation with some socio-economic variables in Salamieh district of Hama government (Syria). Both Primary data and secondary were used for the study. The study was based on survey of a total of 381 households randomly selected from five areas. Analytical tools used include descriptive statistics. The empirical findings indicates 37%, 43.3%, and 19.7% of the sampled households were found to be food unsecured, intermediate food unsecured and fully food secured Furthermore. respectively a positive and significant correlation was found between food consumption average index as an dependent variable and size of annual income and level of education as independents variables which indicates the effects of such variables on this index. A multiple regression analysis showed that such explanatory variables explained together 30% of the total variance on the degree of food security level. As a result of this study, factor of income and level of education had an effect on level food security for families in Salamieh
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