Table I.

Proportions of children experiencing hunger due to food shortage at home shortage on self-rated health, physical symptoms, medicine use and socio-demographic factors

		Never (%)	Often or always (%)
Gender (p<0.001)	Boys Girls	62.3 73.5	16.7 9.3
Age (p=0.001)	11–12 years 13–14 years 15–17 years	65.3 67.3 72.3	17.0 12.4 9.4
FAS (p<0.001)	Low Medium High	60.5 71.4 76.5	14.8 12.0 9.8
Type of habitation (p<0.001)	Town Village	71.0 58.2	10.6 18.3
Self-rated health (p<0.001)	Good/excellent Fair/poor	70.0 60.3	12.6 13.9
Physical symptoms last 6 month (p=0.02)	About every week or more frequent Less than about every week	66.4 71.3	11.2 10.6
Medicine use last month (p<0.001)	Yes No	64.1 74.4	13.4 9.1