Assessing the dimensionality of food-security measures
Abstract
We explore the dimensionality of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s household food security survey module among households with children. Using a novel methodological approach to measuring food security, we find that there is multidimensionality in the module for households with children that is associated with the overall household, adult, and child dimensions of food security. Additional analyses suggest official estimates of food security among households with children are robust to this multidimensionality. However, we also find that accounting for the multidimensionality of food security among these households provides new insights into the correlates of food security at the household, adult, and child levels of measurement.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Feb 24, 2022
- Source ID
- 10.3233/jem-210476
Entities
People
- George Engelhard
- J. Kyle Jennings
- Matthew P. Rabbitt
Organizations
- Economic Research Service
- University of Georgia