Table 3. Food based coping strategies used among food insecure adolescents in southwest Ethiopia during the last three months before the survey.

Food based coping strategy(n = 428)	Never	1–7 Days	8–21 Days	>21 Days
	%	%	%	%
Number of days adolescent had to reduce the number of meals eaten in a day, because of shortages of food or money to buy food during the last 3 months	10.7	78.0	6.8	4.4
Number of days the adolescent worried that he/she would run out of food or not have enough money to buy food during the last 3 months	18.2	69.6	6.3	5.8
Number of days the adolescent had to spend the whole day without eating, because of shortages of food or money to buy food during the last 3 months	76.2	19.2	1.9	2.8
Number of days the adolescent had to ask for food or money to buy food(beg) during the last 3 months	79.2	17.8	1.4	1.6

The last 3 months refer to time before interview of the adolescent.

Percentage is calculated out of row totals.