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

Table 3 Household food insecurity access scale main variables in Kedida Gamela district 2020

Variables	Categories	Frequencies	Percentages
Worry about not having enough food	No	67	11.5
Worry about not having enough food	Yes	515	88.5
Unable to eat preferred food	No	144	24.7
Unable to eat preferred food	Yes	438	75.3
Eat just a few kinds of food	No	181	31.1
Eat just a few kinds of food	Yes	401	68.9
Eat food really do not want	No	427	73.4
Eat food really do not want	Yes	155	26.6
Eat smaller amounts in meal	No	270	46.4
Eat smaller amounts in meal	Yes	312	53.6
Eat fewer meals in a day	No	320	55.0
Eat fewer meals in a day	Yes	262	45.0
No food of any kind in household	No	500	85.9
No food of any kind in household	Yes	82	14.1
Go to sleep hungry at night	No	554	95.2
Go to sleep hungry at night	Yes	28	4.8
Go a whole day and night without food	No	582	100
Go a whole day and night without food	Yes	0	0

ISSN: 2055-0928