Table 5 List of 26 coping strategies and severity levels used over the last 30 daysa
Coping strategies | Degree of severity |
|---|---|
1. Leave village to look for work | 3 |
2. Sell household assets or good | 2 |
3. Buy food on credit | 2 |
4. Use savings | 1 |
5. Borrow money | 1 |
6. Sell a production good or a mean of transport | 2 |
7. Reduce spending on health (including the purchase of drugs) and education | 3 |
8. Take girls out of school | 3 |
9. Take boys out of school | 3 |
10. Sell house or land | 4 |
11. Beg | 4 |
12. Sell small animals (e.g., chickens) | 2 |
13. Sell cattle | 2 |
14. Sell last female from productive herd | 2 |
15. Sell production at a lower price | 2 |
16. Reduce working hours, fire, or do not hire salary workers | 1 |
17. Send girls to look for work | 3 |
18. Send boys to look for work | 3 |
19. Reduce area cultivated | 2 |
20. Reduce quantity or quality of inputs applied | 1 |
21.Reduce quantity or quality of seeds used | 1 |
22. Reduce portion of marketed production to have more for household consumption | 1 |
23. Reduce portions of food to give it to others | 3 |
24. Reduce portions of girls to give them to others | 3 |
25. In your opinion, were there women in your community that monetized their sexual relations? | 4 |
26. Marry one of your daughters | 4 |