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Table 2 Affirmative responses to items on the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) in urban and rural settings, Ethiopia, 2013

From: Is the adapted Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) developed internationally to measure food insecurity valid in urban and rural households of Ethiopia?

HFIAS questions

Urban

 

Rural

 

Total

 
 

n

(% yes)

n

(% yes)

n

(% yes)

Q1. Worry about food

308

66.96

549

51.99

857

56.5

Q2. Unable to eat preferred foods

355

71.17

848

80.3

1203

79.35

Q3. Eat a limited variety of foods

350

76.09

728

68.94

1078

71.11

Q4. Eat foods that you really did not want to eat

9

1.96

7

0.09

10

0.66

Q5. Eat a smaller meal

284

61.74

540

51.14

824

54.35

Q6. Eat fewer meals in a day

277

60.22

586

55.49

863

56.93

Q7. No food to eat of any kind in the household

40

8.7

39

3.69

79

5.21

Q8. Go to sleep at night hungry

75

16.3

74

7.01

149

9.83

Q9. Go a whole day and night without eating anything

27

5.87

28

2.65

55

3.63