| Value | Category | 
                                    
                    
                        |  | No Third coping method | 
                                    
                    
                        | 1 | Rely on less preferred and less expensive food | 
                                    
                    
                        | 2 | Borrow food, or rely on help from friends or   relatives | 
                                    
                    
                        | 3 | Borrowed money to buy food | 
                                    
                    
                        | 4 | Limit portion size at meals | 
                                    
                    
                        | 5 | Restrict consumption by adults in order for small children to eat | 
                                    
                    
                        | 6 | Reduce number of meals eaten in a day | 
                                    
                    
                        | 7 | Skip entire days without eating | 
                                    
                    
                        | 8 | Purchase food on credit | 
                                    
                    
                        | 9 | Consume seed stocks held for the next season | 
                                    
                    
                        | 10 | Decrease expenditures for seeds, fertilizer, pesticide, fodder, animal feed, vet. Care?. | 
                                    
                    
                        | 11 | Sell domestic assets (radio, furniture, fridge, TV, carpet?) | 
                                    
                    
                        | 12 | Sell productive assets (farm implements, sewing machine, land?) | 
                                    
                    
                        | 13 | Sell more animals than usual | 
                                    
                    
                        | 14 | Decrease expenditures for health care | 
                                    
                    
                        | 15 | Take children out of school | 
                                    
                    
                        | 16 | Seek alternative or additional jobs | 
                                    
                    
                        | 17 | Migration of household members | 
                                    
                    
                        | 18 | Increase the number of members out-migrating for work and/or food | 
                                    
                    
                        | 19 | Increased working hours | 
                                    
                    
                        | 20 | Send children to friends/ relatives or to eat elsewhere | 
                                    
                    
                        | 21 | Begging for money or for food | 
                                    
                    
                        | 22 | Sale of personal/ household  assets (Car, motorbike, bicycle, jewellery, ...  ) | 
                                    
                    
                        | 23 | Rely/depend on emergency food aid | 
                                    
                    
                        | 24 | Rely on public work safety net | 
                                    
                    
                        | 25 | Rely on public work direct support | 
                                    
                    
                        | 26 | Other/ specify | 
                                    
                    
                        | Sysmiss |  | 
                            
            Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.