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6 Survey Vehicles to Measure Food Insecurity and Hunger
6 Survey Vehicles to Measure Food Insecurity and Hunger
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bases its annual report and estimates of the prevalence of food insecurity on data collected from the Food Security Supplement (FSS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS)
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This includes data collection, initial editing for confidentiality and weighting, incorporating household-level food security variables calculated from the initial data by USDA, preparation of documentation for the public use file, and purveying the public use data on CD-ROM and on the Census Bureau's Data FERRET system.2 As noted earlier, CPS uses a rotating sample design and technically is a panel survey because a household is in the survey for four months, then out for eight months, and then back in for four months. The sample unit is the household address and not the household, and for the reinterview period the original occupants of the address may have moved since the earlier interviews.
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SURVEY VEHICLES TO MEASURE FOOD INSECURITY AND HUNGER 101 National Health Interview Survey The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) , conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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102 FOOD INSECURITY AND HUNGER IN THE UNITED STATES into consecutive weeks yields the greatest monetary savings, the NHIS sample was cut in three consecutive weeks in May 2004. For 2003 and 2002, the NHIS sample was cut in three consecutive weeks in April 2003 and two consecutive weeks in December 2002.
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NHANES has included the 18-item household food security survey module in the family interview part of the household interview since 1999. Individually referenced food security questions (7 for participants age 16 and older, 6 for participants younger than age 16)
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Low-income households are oversampled, resulting in about an 11 percent increase in the number of low-income households compared with what would be without oversampling.3 SIPP has included a subset of six food insecurity questions (but not the standard six-item set) in the adult well-being module once during each panel beginning in 1998.
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The CPS December interview has been used for the past few years as the vehicle for the Food Security Supplement. An important advantage of CPS is its widespread acceptance as an authoritative source of statistical information.
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Recommendation 6-2: USDA should carefully review the strengths and weaknesses of the National Health Interview Survey in relation to the Current Population Survey in order to determine the best possible survey vehicle for the Food Security Supplement at a fu ture date. In the meantime, the Food Security Supplement should continue to be conducted in the Current Population Survey.
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They would permit a better assessment of the success of such programs as food stamps, because analysts could study the dynamics of economic need, food insecurity, and subsequent relief due to food stamps. The panel recognizes that in an era of budgetary constraints it would be difficult for USDA to accomplish all the goals of reliably measuring food insecurity prevalence, hunger and their dynamics.
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