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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ecol Food Nutr. 2015 Feb 13;54(4):358–369. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2014.995790

Table 3.

Select food insecurity questions adapted from Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS)

1. Never (%) 2. Rarely (%) 3. Sometimes (%) 4. Often (%)
In the past four weeks, how often did:
You or other members of your household have to eat a smaller meal than was needed because there was not enough food? 25.5 18.2 45.5 10.0
You or other members of your household have to eat fewer meals in a day because there was not enough food? 34.2 26.1 33.3 6.3
Anyone in your household go to sleep hungry because there was not enough food? 53.2 28.8 14.4 3.6
Anyone in your household go a whole day and night without eating anything because there was no food? 67.6 21.6 9.0 1.8