Tabela 2. Prevalence of food insecurity according to the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale and to the two short version proposals in two samples. Pelotas, RS, Southern Brazil, 2013.

Variable	Pelotas sample		PNDS-2006 sample
	n	%	n	%
EBIAa
Food security	91	39.6	8,998	61.0
Food insecurity	139	60.4	6,577	39.0
EBIAb
Food security	94	40.9	9,034	61.2
Food insecurity	136	59.1	6,541	38.8
EBIAc
Food security	97	42.2	9,121	61.9
Food insecurity	133	57.8	6,454	38.1

EBIA: Escala Brasileira de Insegurança Alimentar (Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale)

^a Full scale.

^b Seven questions (see Table 1).

^c Five questions (see Table 1).