Analysis of households food insecurity and its coping mechanisms in Western Ethiopia

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Households food security status and its breakdown between districts

District	Food insecure		Food secure		Total		% of food insecure within the districts
District	N	%	N	%	N^a	%	% of food insecure within the districts
Assosa	83	30.07	60	21.74	143	51.81	58.04
Bambasi	44	15.94	46	16.67	90	32.61	48.89
Sherkole	21	7.61	22	7.97	43	15.58	48.84
Total	148	53.62	128	46.38	276	100

Source: Authors computation (2017), N = 276; ^a indicates the samples drawn from each district based on probability proportional to size