Table 1. Proposals for a food insecurity scale that is a reduced version of the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale. Pelotas, RS, Southern Brazil, 2013.

(A) Proposal with seven questions
(A) Proposal with seven questions
1) In the last 3 months, were you worried that the food in your home would end before you could buy, receive or produce more food?
2) In the last 3 months, did the food end before you had money to buy more?
3) In the last 3 months, did you run out of money and you could not have a healthy and varied diet?
4) In the last 3 months, did you or an adult in your home reduce the amount of food in your meals, or skip meals, because there was not enough money to buy food?
5) In the last 3 months, did you eat less than you thought you should because there was not enough money to buy food?
6) In the last 3 months, did you feel hungry but did not eat because you could not buy enough food?
7) In the last 3 months, did you or any other adult in your home spend one entire day without eating or had only one meal per day because there was no money to buy food?
(B) Proposal with five questions
1) In the last 3 months, were you worried that the food in your home would end before you could buy, receive or produce more food?
2) In the last 3 months, did the food end before you had money to buy more?
3) In the last 3 months, did you run out of money and could not have a healthy and varied diet?
4) In the last 3 months, did you or an adult in your home reduce the amount of food in your meals, or skip meals, because there was not enough money to buy food?
5) In the last 3 months, did you eat less than you thought you should because there was not enough money to buy food?

^a See Table 4.