Table 1.

Nine questions used to measure household food insecurity scale.

Question (During the lockdown period)	Occurrence frequency options
Food anxiety (used to generate variable FA)
Q1: Did you worry about household would not have sufficient food?	0 = Never, 1 = Rarely, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Often or all the time
Food quality (used to generate variable FQL)
Q2: Were your household not able to eat preferred food?	For each question, options include: 0 = Never, 1 = Rarely, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Often or all the time
Q3: Did your household have to eat only a few kinds of foods?
Q4: Did your household have to eat some kinds of foods that not really want?
Food quantity (used to generate variable FQT)
Q5: Did your household have to eat a smaller meal than needed?	For each question, options include: 0 = Never, 1 = Rarely, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Often or all the time
Q6: Did your household have to eat fewer meals in a day?
Q7: Did your household have no food to eat?
Q8: Did your household have to go to sleep hungry?
Q9: Did your household eat nothing for a whole day and night?

Source: Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for measurement of food access: indicator guide(version 3) [36].