Table 1.

Food insecurity, water insecurity and socio-demographic characteristics of Daasanach households participating in the Daasanach Health and Life History Project 2019 (n 136)

	% of households	Mean	sd *	Interquartile range	n of households
Indicators of food insecurity
HFIAS score (range: 0–27)		17·3	5·2	15, 21
Severity of household food insecurity
Mild *	1·5 %				2
Moderate *	2·2 %				3
Severe *	96·3 %				131
Frequency of milk intake in previous week
None	38·2 %				52
Less than daily	22·8 %				31
Daily	39·0 %				53
Indicators of water insecurity
HWISE score (range: 0–36)		20·2	6·8	16, 25
HWISE score 12–23 pts	59·6 %				81
HWISE score 24–36 pts	33·8 %				46
Frequency in previous 4 weeks of having to change what was eaten because of water problems
Never/rarely (0–2 times)	35·3 %				48
Sometimes/often/always (3+ times)	64·7 %				88
h/d spent fetching water		4·3	2·3	2, 6
Socio-demographic characteristics
Household income in previous month (median, USD) †	5			0, 26
Household monetary value of livestock (median, USD) †	713			338, 1358
Perceived social status (range: 1–10/worst-best) ‡		3·3	2·2	2, 5
Number of children < 16 years in household		4·5	2·5	3, 6
Female household head age (years)		34·8	12·5	25, 42
Number of times moved in the previous year (median)		4·1	6·1	0, 6

HFIAS, Household Food Insecurity and Access Scale; HWISE, Household Water Insecurity Experience.

^*Classification for mild, moderate and severe household food insecurity is based on affirmative responses to more severe HFIAS items. See Supplemental Text 1 for details on scoring and classification definitions.

^†Medians instead of means reported for household income and livestock wealth due to their skewed distributions.

^‡Two households were missing data on self-perceived social status.