Table 4. Life condition or circumstances of streets in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia, 2021.

Variables	Category	Frequency	Percentage
Do you have work (n = 220)	Yes	80	36.36
	No	140	63.64
street occupation (n = 174)	Begging	64	36.78
	Shoe shinning	4	2.30
	Carrying small items	45	25.86
	Delivering messages	25	14.37
	Taxi boy	36	20.69
Daily income (174)	Less than fifty birrs	86	49.43
	50–100 birr	53	30.46
	more than 100 birrs	35	20.1
Daily income spent on (174)	Food	133	76.00
	Cloth	2	1.14
	School fee	38	21.71
	Help family	2	1.14
Daily income reliable (n = 174)	Yes	27	15.52
	No	147	84.48
With whom were you living before you resort to street life?	With both parents	113	51.83
	With my mother	57	26.15
	With father only	17	7.80
	With close relatives	22	10.09
	*Others	11	5
To whom are you living now?	With my mother	26	11.98
	with both parents	8	3.69
	With relatives	9	4.09
	With father Alone	2	0.91
	With peers/friends	152	69.09
	**Other	23	10.45
Who helps and protects you while you are on the street?	No one	95	43.18
	Siblings	5	2.27
	Peer groups	72	32.73
	Parents	21	9.55
	Close relatives	27	12.27
How often do you usually see/visit your families?	Everyday	41	18.64
	at least once a week	19	8.64
	Once every month	12	5.45
	only a few times in a year	18	8.18
	Rarely	26	11.82
	Irregularly	22	10.00
	Never	18	8.18
	Don’t care	64	29.09
Approve/disapprove of living or working on the street by parents?	Approve	44	24
	Disapprove	59	32.42
	Don’t care	49	26.92
	Don’t know	30	16.48
How many times a day do you eat?	Once	42	19.09
	Twice	82	37.27
	Three times and above	96	43.64
Where do you usually go to sleep?	Home	26	11.82
	church yards	1	0.45
	mosque yards	4	1.82
	Bus stops	13	5.91
	on verandah	84	38.18
	Plastic houses	92	41.82

*Others = friends, wife and husband

**Other = alone and husband.