“I worry if I will have food tomorrow”: a study on food insecurity among asylum seekers living in Norway

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Logistic regression model of adult food insecurity with hunger by background characteristics

Variable	Food insecurity Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	P
Age	0.99 (0.96, 1.03)	0.664
Gender^a	4.08 (2.04, 8.16)	< 0.001
Urban	0.73 (0.37, 1.44)	0.364
Country of origin^b	–	0.182
Application granted	0.61 (0.31, 1.19)	0.147
Education^c		0.037
Higher education	ref
Primary/Sec	0.52 (0.25, 1.11)
No education	1.96 (0.59, 6.49)
Monthly budget^d	0.73 (0.62, 0.86)	< 0.001
Months in Norway	1.00 (0.99, 1.02)	0.547
Number of children	0.47 (0.33, 0.68)	< 0.001

^aGender: men compared to women; ^bCategories include Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria (reference), and Other. Individual estimates not shown. Omnibus p-value shown, pairwise comparisons were not statistically different from one another; ^cEducation divided into three categories (no education, primary/secondary education, and higher education); ^dPer 100 euro increase in budget

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