Table 1.
The perceived financial threat across their socio-economic and demographic characteristics
| Variables | Category | Perceived financial threat of COVID-19 | X2 p-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Substantial threat | Moderate threat | No much threat | No threat at all | |||
| Count (%) | Count(%) | Count (%) | Count(%) | |||
| Gender of HHH | Male | 1283(42) | 409(13.4) | 149(4.9) | 283(9.3) | 0.017 |
| Female | 605(19.8) | 144(4.7) | 51(1.7) | 134(4.4) | ||
| Gender of the respondent | Male | 1169(38.2) | 362(11.8) | 125(4.1) | 252(8.2) | 0.382 |
| Female | 718(23.5) | 191(6.2) | 75(2.5) | 165(5.4) | ||
| Respondent relation to HHH | Head | 1569(51.3) | 438(14.3) | 162(5.3) | 337(11.0) | 0.670 |
| Spouse | 167(5.5) | 57(1.9) | 20(0.7) | 42(1.4) | ||
| Son/Daughter | 123(4.0) | 46(1.5) | 13(0.4) | 29(0.9) | ||
| Others | 28(0.9) | 12(0.4) | 5(0.2) | 9(0.3) | ||
| COVID-19 illness worry | No worried at all | 200(6.5) | 74(2.4) | 33(1.1) | 209(6.8) | 0.000 |
| No too worried | 134(4.4) | 82(2.7) | 47(1.5) | 49(1.6) | ||
| Somewhat worried | 286(9.4) | 172(5.6) | 46(1.5) | 63(2.1) | ||
| Very worried | 1268(41.5) | 225(7.4) | 74(2.4) | 96(3.1) | ||
| Able to buy enough medicine | No | 53(8.9) | 4(0.7) | 2(0.3) | 1(0.2) | 0.000 |
| Yes | 322(54.0) | 99(16.6) | 35(5.9) | 80(13.4) | ||
| Able to buy enough teff/injera | No | 221(16.1) | 32(2.3) | 15(1.1) | 14(1.0) | 0.000 |
| Yes | 672(49.0) | 196(14.3) | 60(4.4) | 161(11.7) | ||
| Employment status | Unemployed | 464(15.2) | 111(3.6) | 36(1.2) | 85(2.8) | 0.021 |
| Employed | 1424(46.6) | 442(14.5) | 164(5.4) | 332(10.9) | ||
| Additional income activities | No | 972(77.8) | 158(12.7) | 32(2.6) | 58(4.6) | 0.003 |
| Yes | 15(1.2) | 8(0.6) | 2(0.2) | 4(0.3) | ||
| Relied on savings | No | 657(52.6) | 136(10.9) | 28(2.2) | 47(3.8) | 0.000 |
| Yes | 330(26.4) | 30(2.4) | 6(0.5) | 15(1.2) | ||
| Household lacked nutritious food | No | 928(30.4) | 347(11.3) | 137(4.5) | 310(10.1) | 0.000 |
| Yes | 960(31.4) | 206(6.7) | 63(2.1) | 107(3.5) | ||
| Residence | Rural | 538(17.6) | 212(6.9) | 66(2.2) | 118(3.9) | 0.000 |
| Urban | 1350(44.1) | 341(11.2) | 134(4.4) | 299(9.8) | ||