Table 1.
Comparison of weighted means and item severity parameters, infit and outfit statistics of the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELCSA) scale between the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT) 2018 and the three ENCOVID-19 surveys from April, May and June 2020
| ENSANUT 2018 | ENCOVID-19 April | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | Means | Item sev. | SE | Infit | Outfit | Means | Item sev. | SE | Infit | Outfit |
| Worried | 49·3 | –3·311 | 0·022 | 1·197 | 2·907 | 52·8 | –2·717 | 0·139 | 1·176 | 3·118 |
| Fewfoods | 37 | –1·801 | 0·019 | 0·846 | 1·152 | 36·4 | –1·16 | 0·126 | 0·883 | 1·048 |
| Healthy | 34·6 | –1·491 | 0·019 | 0·933 | 1·325 | 31·7 | –0·667 | 0·127 | 0·966 | 0·899 |
| Ateless | 23·5 | –0·018 | 0·02 | 0·826 | 0·739 | 29·4 | –0·381 | 0·128 | 0·795 | 0·632 |
| Ranout | 15 | 1·358 | 0·022 | 1·235 | 1·324 | 18 | 1·015 | 0·144 | 1·023 | 0·955 |
| Skipped | 14·6 | 1·44 | 0·023 | 0·845 | 0·769 | 19·2 | 0·835 | 0·14 | 1·001 | 0·953 |
| Hungry | 14·1 | 1·527 | 0·023 | 0·818 | 0·664 | 16·7 | 1·198 | 0·147 | 0·869 | 0·883 |
| Whlday | 10·7 | 2·296 | 0·026 | 0·973 | 0·959 | 12·3 | 1·877 | 0·164 | 1·051 | 1·474 |
sev, severity; Whlday, whole day; all means and Rasch models estimated with household-level sampling weights.