Description of MHFI and water insecurity
| Insecurity | Dimension | Variables used for scoring |
| MHFI | Poor food access | Preferred food (yes/no) Sufficient food (yes/no) Help to get food (yes/no) Food on credit (yes, no) |
| Household shocks | Agriculture (yes/no) Economic losses (yes/no) Death or injury (yes/no) | |
| Low availability and quality | Stock of staple food (8 ordinal categories of time) Having a home garden (yes/no) Diet diversity of household (yes/no) | |
| MHWI | Poor water access | Distance (>1000 m) Time to drinking water (>15 min) Time to non-drinking water (>15 min) |
| Poor water quality | Type of drinking source(improved (piped, protected ground), unimproved ground (unprotected boreholes/wells), surface) Type of non-drinking source(improved (piped, protected ground), unimproved ground (unprotected boreholes/wells), surface) Drinking water satisfaction related to taste, smell and colour (satisfied, neutral, unsatisfied) | |
| Low water reliability | Unavailability of water for drinking (ever/never in the past year) Unavailability of non-drinking purposes (ever/never in the past year) |
MHFI, multidimensional household food insecurity; MHWI, multidimensional household water insecurity.