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 |
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Food Secure | 470 (57.7) |
Moderately + Severely Food insecure | 231 (28.4) |
Severely Food insecure | 113 (13.9) |