Food insecurity of rural households in Boset district of Ethiopia: a suite of indicators analysis

Table 5 Distribution of households by HFIAS condition

S/no.	HFIAS conditions	Severity status and number of households
		Rarely		Sometimes		Often
		n	%	n	%	n	%
1	Worried having not enough food	152	51.88	129	44.03	12	4.10
2	Not able to eat the food kinds he/she preferred	55	13.90	212	53.81	127	32.23
3	Able to eat only a limited variety of foods	6	1.52	167	42.39	221	56.09
4	Able to eat some foods that he/she did not want to eat	195	68.18	89	31.12	2	0.70
5	Able to eat a smaller meal than he/she felt needed	47	11.93	208	52.79	139	35.28
6	Able to eat fewer meals/day because there was not enough food	17	4.33	165	41.98	211	53.69
7	Absolutely no food to eat in the household	178	69.80	77	30.20	0	0.00
8	Slept at night hungry because there was not enough food	95	73.08	35	26.92	0	0.00
9	Went a whole day and night hungry b/c there was not enough food	58	85.29	10	14.79	0	0.00
	Total score	803	30.8	1092	41.9	712	27.3

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