Table 5.

Convergent validity of the newly developed food security tool: Correlations between factors scores from the new tool with the existing household measures of socio economic status (components of the Water and sanitation, Assets, Maternal education, and Income composite (WAMI) index and of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale)

	Correlation between sum of standardized household Factor Analysis Scores and household measures
	“Sweet and sugar items” -- mostly buying sweets, juices, expensive fish	“Less preferred” -- buying canned tuna, organ meat, yucca, eggs, receive/give food	“More preferred” -- red meat, fresh and expensive fish, refrigerator access	“Minimum meal” -- rice, yucca, plantains and egg
WAMI	209 observations from 113 children (same month)
Assets	0.22**	−0.19*	0.16*	−0.02
Monthly income (US$)	0.28***	−0.09	0.27***	0.12
Water/sanitation	0.15	−0.16*	0.17*	−0.05
Maternal Education	0.20**	−0.15	0.17*	0.06
HFIAS	215 observations from 113 children (same month)
Overall FS status	−0.25**	0.16*	−0.04	0.17*
Quality	−0.01	0.29***	0.01	0.21**
Quantity	−0.24**	0.16	−0.13	0.11
Anxiety	−0.07	0.14	0.04	0.18*

Presented as mean correlation (p value). ^*p < 0.10, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01