Use of household food insecurity scales for assessing poverty in Bangladesh and Uganda

Alcarez V., Gabriela; Zeller, Manfred

Use of household food insecurity scales for assessing poverty in Bangladesh and Uganda

dc.contributor.author	Alcarez V., Gabriela	de
dc.contributor.author	Zeller, Manfred	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:41:22Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:41:22Z
dc.date.created	2008-10-23
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.description.abstract	An important dimension of poverty is access to food. Household food security implies access to the food needed for a healthy and productive life. Lack of access to and/or impaired utilization of food contribute to household food insecurity. This study compares the usefulness of a standardized food insecurity scale for determining the food insecurity status of rural and urban households in Bangladesh and Uganda, and for predicting poverty status. The analysis uses data from the IRIS Composite Survey Household Questionnaire (2004), which consists of 1,587 households (approximately 800 households in each country). The coping mechanisms adopted in the presence of food shortages represent the building blocks for the development of the scale (7 items). In order to assess the suitability of the scale as an estimator of the households? poverty status, the benchmark indicator ?daily expenditures per capita? and its relation to the corresponding poverty line serves as the basis for evaluation for each country. The scale provides the means for classifying the households into 3 main groups: Non Food Insecure, Moderately Food Insecure, and Severely Food Insecure. The reliability of the scale is measured via the Cronbach?s Alpha statistic. In addition, the scale is used in regression analysis in order to predict per capita daily expenditures and the poverty incidence. The results show that food insecurity does not always reflect (income) poverty. However, the use of the scale as a predictor of poverty status produces rough estimates of poverty incidence that could be useful as background information. The differentiation of households according to their food security status may be valuable for focusing and developing improved food insecurity mitigation strategies.	en
dc.identifier.swb	287112578
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5200
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-3106
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Forschung zur Entwicklungsökonomie und -politik / Research in development economics and policy; 2008,1
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Food insecurity scale	en
dc.subject	Poverty	en
dc.subject	Bangladesh	en
dc.subject	Uganda	en
dc.subject	Nahrungsmittelunsicherheit	de
dc.subject.ddc	630
dc.subject.gnd	Bangladesch	de
dc.subject.gnd	Uganda	de
dc.subject.gnd	Armut	de
dc.subject.gnd	Ernähungslage	de
dc.subject.gnd	Bewertungssystem	de
dc.title	Use of household food insecurity scales for assessing poverty in Bangladesh and Uganda	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Alcarez V.2008, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5200}, author = {Alcarez V., Gabriela and Zeller, Manfred}, title = {Use of household food insecurity scales for assessing poverty in Bangladesh and Uganda}, year = {2008}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Forschung zur Entwicklungsökonomie und -politik / Research in development economics and policy}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Alcarez V., Gabriela and Zeller, Manfred
local.export.bibtexKey	Alcarez V.2008
local.export.bibtexType	@techreport
local.faculty.number	2	de
local.faculty.number	7	de
local.institute.number	490	de
local.institute.number	790	de
local.opus.number	310
local.series.issueNumber	2008,1
local.series.title	Forschung zur Entwicklungsökonomie und -politik / Research in development economics and policy
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Agricultural Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Agrarwissenschaften	de
local.university.faculty	State Institutes	en
local.university.faculty	Landesanstalten	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Agrar- und Sozialökonomie in den Tropen und Subtropen	de
local.university.institute	Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics	en
local.university.institute	Tropenzentrum	de

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