Table 4. Dietary diversity, food variety score and the consumption of animal source food by adolescent and household food security status and socio-demographic variables (n = 2084).

Characteristics	Dietary Diversity Score			FVS		Frequency of ASF Intake*
	Low (%) (n = 1678)	High (%)† (n = 406)	p	Mean(±SD)	p	Low (%) (n = 1161)	High (%)† (N = 923)	P
Adolescent food securityFood secureFood Insecure	78.090.4	22.09.6	<0.001	17.2(±3.9)15.2(±3.8)	<0.001	64.772.9	35.327.1	0.003
Sex of the adolescentFemaleMale	83.977.2	16.122.8	<0.001	16.7(±3.6)16.8(±4.3)	0.952	65.267.5	34.832.5	0.257
Age in completed years1314151617	87.382.978.175.476.5	12.717.121.924.623.5	<0.001	16.3(±3.7)16.9(±3.9)16.7(±4.0)17.1(±4.1)17.1(±4.2)	0.016	74.265.665.363.560.9	25.834.434.736.539.1	<0.001
Place of residenceUrbanSemi-urbanRural	72.878.390.0	27.221.710.0	<0.001	16.7(±4.3)18.0(±3.7)16.0(±3.6)	<0.001	49.965.483.6	50.134.616.4	<0.001
Household income tertileLowMiddleHigh	87.284.569.9	12.815.530.1	<0.001	16.4(±3.8)16.5(±4.0)17.5(±4.0)	<0.001	79.271.448.6	20.828.651.4	<0.001
Dependency Ratio, TertilesLowMiddleHigh	77.379.984.0	22.720.116.0	0.008	17.1(±4.0)16.7(±4.0)16.7(±3.8)	0.039	61.665.771.4	38.434.328.6	0.001
Educational status of the adolescentPrimarySecondary & above	83.068.4	17.031.6	<0.001	16.6(±3.9)17.3(±4.2)	<0.012	69.751.4	30.348.6	<0.001

^†High =  3^rd tertile of frequency of ASF consumption, Low =  the two lower tertiles of frequency of ASF consumption combined.

T-test was used for all mea comparisons with two groups and one way-ANOVA was use for comparing more than 2 means.

Proportions were compared using Chi-square tests.

Consumption of ASF refers to consumption of at least one of the 10 ASF in the food frequency questionnaire once per week.

^†High  =  DDS of the highest (3^rd) tertile, Low =  the two lower DDS tertiles combined.

DDS: dietary diversity score, FVS =  food variety score and ASF =  Animal Source foods.

Primary =  grade 1–8.