Table 2.
Status of household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS) questions.
| Household hunger scale indicators in the past 4 weeks | Yes, n(%) | No, n(%) | Percentage of occurrence (yes) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rarely, n(%) | Sometimes, n(%) | Often, n(%) | |||
| Did you worry that your household would not have enough food? | 403(34.8) | 756(65.2) | 104(9.0) | 225(19.4) | 74(6.4) |
| Were you or any household member not able to eat the kinds of foods you preferred because of a lack of resources? | 517(44.6) | 642(55.4) | 108(9.3) | 301(26.0) | 108(9.3) |
| Did you or any household member have to eat a limited variety of foods due to a lack of resources? | 465(40.1) | 694(59.9) | 113(9.7) | 268(23.1) | 84(7.2) |
| Did you or any household member have to eat some foods that you really did not want to eat because of a lack of resources to obtain other types of food? | 536(46.2) | 623(53.8) | 136(11.7) | 296(25.5) | 104(9.0) |
| Did you or any household member have to eat a smaller meal than you felt you needed because there was not enough food? | 441(38.1) | 718(61.9) | 114(9.8) | 245(21.1) | 82(7.1) |
| Did you or any other household member have to eat fewer meals in a day because there was not enough food? | 417(36.0) | 742(64.0) | 121(10.4) | 226(19.5) | 70(6.0) |
| Was there ever no food to eat of any kind in your household because of lack of resources to get food? | 287(24.8) | 872(75.2) | 80(6.9) | 166(14.3) | 41(3.5) |
| Did you or any household member go to sleep at night hungry because there was not enough food? | 215(18.6) | 944(81.4) | 79(6.8) | 117(10.1) | 19(1.6) |
| Did you or any household member go a whole day and night without eating anything because there was not enough food? | 155(13.4) | 1004(86.6) | 44(3.8) | 94(8.1) | 17(1.5) |