| dc.description.abstract | The major objective was of this study was to examine the demographic & socio-economic factors associated with number of meals taken at HH level in Kampala district. A cross-sectional study design was adopted for this study whereby secondary data was obtained and analyzed at the same time then results disseminated. Data on Uganda National House Hold Survey (UNHS) 2019 2020 was used and analyzed using STATA software version 15. All tests were done at 5% significance level; 95% confidence level to ensure representativeness of the sample. Analysis was done at three levels; Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate.
From the univariate analysis, findings indicated that 27% of the respondents were from Rubaga division, 25% from Nakawa and 21% from Makindye division. 94% of the respondents were urban based, 58% were female respondents (HH-heads), 55% had 20 years and below, 51% had never been married, and only 11% had ever been faced with a problem of limited food to feed on. On education status, 8% of the respondents had never attended school, 47% were currently schooling, about 35% said that their major source of income was subsistence farming, 48% understood savings as “Putting money in a special place or account for the money to be safe”, 68% had accessed credit in the previous year, 81% had not worked for a payable job and 87% never owned any business in the recent 12 months. Finally, 64.7% had 3 or more meals a day, 30.8% had 2 meals a day and 4.5% had only one meal a day.
Findings from the Bivariate analysis findings revealed that socio demographic factors such as sex of the respondent (P=0.1744, X2 = 16.38), and Age-group (P=0.0926, X2 = 18.83) of the respondent had a moderate relationship with number of meals taken by a HH per day. On the other hand, respondents having been short of food to feed on had a significant relationship with number of meals daily (P=0.000, X2 = 26.52).
From the regression analysis, Households headed by females were 3.412 times more likely to have many meals per day compared to those headed by men (OR=3.412, P=0.030), and HHs that had never been faced food shortage were 45.126 times more likely to have more meals per day that the HHs that have ever been faced with food shortage. (OR45.126, P=0.001).
Findings from the study indicated the need to emphasize food security awareness campaigns especially through mass media. | en_US |
