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Table 5 Rural HHs coping strategies index (N = 200)

From: Household food insecurity and coping strategies in Southern Ethiopia

Local coping strategies

CSI

WMS

Rank

Rely on less preferred and cheap food

457

2.285

1

Participating in off-farm activity like wage employment

277

1.385

2

Borrow food from friends or relatives

206

1.03

3

Restrict food consumption of adults to feed children

201

1.005

4

Reduce the number of meals and limit the proportion size of a meal of household

200

1

5

Seasonal migration to other place

194

0.97

6

Receiving support from PSNP and other NGO in form of cash and kind

170

0.85

7

  1. CSI represents coping strategy index; WMS represents weighted mean score