Analyzing the contribution of crop diversification in improving household food security among wheat dominated rural households in Sinana District, Bale Zone, Ethiopia

Table 4 Distribution of households by HFIAS condition

HFIAS condition	Rarely		Sometimes		Often
HFIAS condition	N	%	N	%	N	%
Worry about food	136	80.00	19	11.78	15	8.82
Unable to eat preferred foods	195	53.72	114	31.40	54	14.88
Eat just a few kinds of foods	92	30.46	84	27.81	126	41.72
Eat foods they really do not want eat	41	11.40	87	23.77	238	65.03
Eat a smaller meal	99	51.03	63	32.47	32	16.49
Eat fewer meals in a day	75	68.81	19	17.43	15	13.76
No food of any kind in the household	38	82.61	5	10.87	3	6.52
Go to sleep hungry	16	88.89	2	11.11	0	0
Go a whole day and night without eating	12	100	0	0	0	0

Clues to the severity status: (1) Rarely (once or twice in the past 4 weeks); (2) Sometimes (three to ten times in the past 4 weeks); (3) Often (more than ten times in the past 4 weeks)

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