Table 3 Factor loading for rotated component matrix of responses to the nine Household Food Insecurity Access Scale items, rural Wolaita, Ethiopia (N = 473)

Q1. Worry for food

.82

.05

.90

.00

.55

.07

.78

.07

.76

.04

Q2. Unable to eat preferred foods

.95

.11

.95

.08

.68

.03

.94

.14

.88

.09

Q3. Eat a limited variety of foods

.96

.14

.93

.21

.23

.70

.93

.16

.83

.19

Q4. Eat foods that you did not want

.95

.18

.89

.32

.84

.28

.94

.16

.92

.18

Q5. Eat a smaller meal

.93

.23

.75

.49

.88

−.25

.84

.22

.86

.16

Q6. Eat fewer meals in a day

.76

.42

.71

.54

.75

.27

.76

.40

.75

.38

Q7. No food to eat of any kind

.27

.86

.26

.85

.16

.77

.30

.85

.26

.87

Q8. Go to sleep at night hungry

.10

.89

.12

.80

.03

.74

.13

.93

.12

.90

Q9. Go day and night without eating

.09

.87

.08

.71

−.07

.68

.10

.90

.09

.84