Table 6.

Criterion validity of the newly developed food security tool: Correlations between factors scores from the new tool with child dietary intakes, and anthropometric status

	Correlation between sum of standardized household Factor Analysis Scores and children’s nutritional measures
	“Sweet and sugary 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
Dietary intakes	922 child-days from 122 children
Energy (kcal)	0.13	0.16*	0.12	−0.04
Fats (g)	0.29***	0.00	0.33***	−0.08
Animal source protein (g)	0.19**	0.07	0.25***	−0.20**
Meat/fish protein (g)	0.10	0.24***	0.04	−0.18*
Vitamin A(μg)	0.01	0.03	0.11	−0.04
Zinc (mg)	0.09	0.11	0.13	−0.07
Iron (mg)	0.06	−0.08	0.11	−0.15*
Sugar (g)	0.09	0.15*	0.06	−0.01
Fiber (g)	0.48***	0.23**	0.09	0.09
# Desserts/sweets	0.31***	0.09	0.22**	0.15
# Fish	−0.23**	0.07	−0.25***	−0.18*
# Grain	0.18*	0.25***	−0.01	0.18**
# Eggs	0.21**	−0.03	0.16*	0.04
# Meat	0.47***	0.18**	0.28***	0.07
Dietary diversity	0.50***	−0.03	0.20**	0.12
Nutritional status	997 observations from 116 children (826 observations from 76 children among 24 months+)
WAZ	0.10	−0.05	0.19**	0.15
LAZ	−0.15	0.07	0.13	0.13
WLZ	0.04	0.25	0.05	0.26
HAZ	0.07	−0.16	0.14	0.13
WHZ	0.11	0.01	0.18*	0.09

Presented in correlation (p value) above. ^*p < 0.10, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01