Food security raw score category, as part of the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form Economic Research Service
Registration Status:
Qualified
Permissible Values:
Data Type:
Value List
Unit of Measure:
Ids:
Value
Code Name
Code
Code System
Code Description
1
High or marginal food security (0-1)
2
Low food security (2-4)
3
Very low security (5-6)
Designations:
Designation:
Food Security Raw Score Category
Tags:
Designation:
Food Security Status Category
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Preferred Question Text
Designations:
Definition:
Food security raw score category, as part of the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form Economic Research Service
Tags:
Short Description,Definition
Reference Documents:
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Language Code:
en-us
Document:
The effectiveness of a short form of the household food security scale, by S.J. Blumberg, K. Bialostosky, W.L. Hamilton, and R.R. Briefel (published by the American Journal of Public Health, vol. 89, pp. 1231-34, 2001
Properties:
Key:
Guidelines/Instructions
Value:
0-1: High or marginal food security (raw score 1 may be considered marginal food security, but a large proportion of households that would be measured as having marginal food security using the household or adult scale will have raw score zero on the six-item scale)
2-4: Low food security
5-6: Very low food security.Responses of "often" or "sometimes" on questions HH3 and HH4, and "yes" on AD1, AD2, and AD3 are coded as affirmative (yes). Responses of "almost every month" and "some months but not every month" on AD1a are coded as affirmative (yes). The sum of affirmative responses to the six questions in the module is the household's raw score on the scale.
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Notes
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For interviewer-administered surveys, DK (Don't know) and Refused are blind responses that is, they are not presented as response options but marked if volunteered. For self-administered surveys, "don't know" is presented as a response option.