Table 2.
Dietary intake characteristics of school going adolescent girls, Awash town, 2018 (n = 340).
| Source of food | Own product | 101 | 29.7% |
| Market purchase | 201 | 59.1% | |
| Gift | 6 | 1.8% | |
| Exchange and barter | 12 | 3.5% | |
| Humanitarian food aid | 16 | 4.7% | |
| Loan | 4 | 1.2% | |
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| Mainly used food staples in the area | Teff | 294 | 86.5% |
| Maize | 11 | 3.2% | |
| Sorghum | 15 | 4.4% | |
| Wheat | 20 | 5.9% | |
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| Number of hunger episodes in last month | No episodes | 15 | 4.4% |
| One episode | 5 | 1.5% | |
| Two episodes | 35 | 10.3% | |
| Three episodes | 71 | 20.9% | |
| Four and above episodes | 214 | 62.9% | |
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| Diet diversity | Poor (<4 food groups) | 167 | 49% |
| Good (≥4 food groups) | 173 | 51% | |