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Table 2 Variables related to the level of wealth status/index in the study area

From: Household food insecurity and coping strategies among rural households in Kedida Gamela District, Kembata-Tembaro zone, Southern Ethiopia: mixed-methods concurrent triangulation design

Variables

Categories

Frequencies

Percentages

Loading component

Own farm land

No

37

6.4

 

Yes

545

93.6

0.597

Oxen for farming

No

370

63.6

 

Yes

212

36.4

0.448

Having cows

No

236

40.6

0.746

Yes

34

59.4

 

Hen/chicken

No

349

60

0.721

Yes

233

40

 

Sheep/goats

No

272

46.7

0.498

Yes

310

53.7

 

Donkey

No

468

80.4

0.508

Yes

114

19.6

 

Beehive

No

414

88.3

0.455

Yes

68

11.7

Cart

No

478

82.1

0.541

Yes

103

17.7

Tape

No

446

71.5

0.727

Yes

166

28.5

 

Television

No

502

86.3

0.616

Yes

80

13.7

 

Watch

No

552

94.8

0.351

Yes

30

5.2

Mobile phone

No

402

69.1

0.602

Yes

180

30.9

 

Bed

No

91

15.6

0.562

Yes

492

84.4

Table

No

100

82.6

0.562

Yes

100

17.4

Chair

No

8

1.4

0.512

Yes

574

98.6

Car/motorbike

No

521

89.5

0.435

Yes

61

10.5

 

Water source

Pipe

300

51.5

0.709

None-pipe

282

48.5

 

Type of roof

Iron sheet

161

27.7

0.625

Grass

421

72.3

Type of house floor

Cemented

112

19.2

0.738

Not cemented

470

80.8