Household dietary diversity and Animal Source Food consumption in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2011 Welfare Monitoring Survey

Table 1 Characteristics of households

Variable		Frequency (n = 27,995)	Percentage (%)
Age of household head	≤20	662	2.4
	21–30	6318	22.6
	31–40	7245	25.9
	41–50	5411	19.3
	>50	8359	29.9
Sex of Household head	Male	20,921	74.7
Sex of Household head	Female	7074	25.3
Literacy of household head	Read and write	11,124	39.7
Literacy of household head	Don’t read and write	16,871	60.3
Residence	Urban	6037	21.6
Residence	Rural	21,958	78.4
Illness	Yes	2778	7.8
Illness	No	25,817	92.2
Experience of shock in the past 12 months	Yes	7340	26.2
Experience of shock in the past 12 months	No	20,655	73.8
Food shortage in the past 12 months	Yes	4047	14.5
Food shortage in the past 12 months	No	23,948	85.5
Household size	≤4	13,375	47.8
Household size	>4	14,620	52.2
Crops cultivated^a	≤3	7708	63.2
Crops cultivated^a	>3	4498	36.9
Engaged in farming	Yes	21,725	77.6
Engaged in farming	No	6270	22.4
Own livestock	Yes	20,970	74.9
Own livestock	No	7025	25.1
Socio-economic score	Low	17,921	64.0
	Medium	6945	24.8
	High	3129	11.2

^an = 12,206 (only those who were engaged in farming practice were asked this question)

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