Table 2.

Household expenditures per year in southern Ethiopia, 2017/2018 (n = 794)

Expenditures	Mean per household ($)	Median per household ($)	Total ($)
Food and supplies (i.e., food, plates, cups, etc. which were bought, grown or produced, received as wages, received as a gift or loan, or spent on cooking and lighting fuel)	500	419	401,992
Utilities (i.e., electricity, water, telephone, etc)	12	14	9861
Education (i.e., schooling for children or self)	2	0	1383
House rent	7	0	5127
Goods and utensils for household use	8	8	6596
Clothes	32	27	25,578
Maintenance of bicycle(s), carts, motorbike, etc	10	0	8065
Replacements of household appliances (i.e., stove, lanterns, etc.)	13	14	10,227
Reimbursement of loan (s)	10	0	7848
Pre-healthcare total household expenditure (gross)	593	527	476,677
Post- healthcare total household expenditure (net)	576	503	462,875
Non-food expenditure (i.e., ability to pay)	93	67	74,685
The proportion of expenditure on food to total household expenditure	84%	88%	84%