Food Insecurity Experience Scale

FIES Questions

Frequency (% of total response)

Respondents worried about access to enough food to eat in the last 30 days

485(56.1)

Respondents unable to eat healthy and nutritious food in the last 30 days

326 (38.0)

Respondents ate only a few kinds of foods in the last 30 days

543 (63.2)

Respondents had to skip a meal in the last 30 days

459 (53.3)

Respondents ate less than he/she thought he/she should in the last 30 days

384 (45.0)

Respondents’ household ran out of food in the last 30 days

223 (26.2)

Respondent was hungry but did not eat in the last 30 days

326 (38.5)

Respondent had to go without eating for a whole day in the last 30 days

38 (4.5)

Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) Categories

Food Secure

470 (57.7)

Moderately + Severely Food insecure

231 (28.4)

Severely Food insecure

113 (13.9)