Coding Responses and Assessing Households’ Food Security Status Sample Clauses

Coding Responses and Assessing Households’ Food Security Status. 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. Food security status is assigned as follows: • Raw score 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) • Raw score 2-4—Low food security • Raw score 5-6—Very low food security For some reporting purposes, the food security status of households with raw score 0-1 is described as food secure and the two categories “low food security” and “very low food security” in combination are referred to as food insecure. For statistical procedures that require an interval-level measure, the following scale scores, based on the Xxxxx measurement model may be used: Number of affirmatives Scale score 0 NA 1 2.86 2 4.19 3 5.27 4 6.30 5 7.54 6 (evaluated at 5.5) 8.48 However, no interval-level score is defined for households that affirm no items. (They are food secure, but the extent to which their food security differs from households that affirm one item is not known.)