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| Opsomer, Jean D.; Jensen, Helen H.; Pan, Suwen. |
| Over the last decade, new information has been developed and collected to measure the extent of food insecurity and hunger in the United States. Common measurement of the phenomenon of hunger and food insecurity has become possible through efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a set of survey questions that can be used to obtain estimates of the prevalence and severity of food insecurity. This paper takes a closer look at the measurement of food insecurity and the effect of household variables on measured food insecurity. The effects of demographic and survey-specific variables on the food insecurity/hunger scale are evaluated using a generalized linear model with mixed effects. Data come from the 1995, 1997, and 1999 Food... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food insecurity; Household hunger; Rasch model; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18507 |
