FOOD INSUFFICIENCY AND HEALTH

               Cycle 2 of the NPHS included three questions to explore issues of household food insecurity. Household respondents were asked if, over the past 12 mo, their household had“ever run out of money to buy food.Survey (21–24) and represents a slight modification of the USDA food sufficiency indicator used in other dietary surveys (10,22,23).The validity of this measure is indicated by the strong associationsbetween household food insufficiency and lower reported energy and
nutrient intakes (10,22) and between household food insufficiencyand income-based measures of poverty (10,25).
In this study, households who responded that they sometimes or often did not have enough food to eat (3.9% of the sample) were classified as“food insufficient”; those who reported that they neverran out of money to buy food (93.4% of the sample) or did so, but always had enough food to eat (2.5% of the sample) were deemed“food sufficient.
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