Measuring Food Security in the Dominican Republic: Adaptation of the U.S. Food Security Survey Module
By Mesfin Bezuneh, Zelealem Yiheyis, Pedro Juan del Rosario, and Luís Ortiz.
ERS project representative: Mark Nord
Contractor and Cooperator Report No. (CCR-47) 52 pp,
August 2008
The U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module was translated into Spanish and adapted for use in the Dominican Republic. Qualitative assessment in a focus group was conducted to confirm the relevance of the concepts and to refine the questions. A pilot survey of 110 households in a rural, economically vulnerable community was conducted, and the data were analyzed to assess the validity of the questions as a multiple-item measure of household food insecurity. Both internal and construct validity appear to be acceptable, although further assessment of two items is recommended. The Dominican survey module complements work in several other countries in Central and South American and the Caribbean to develop a common set of food security questions for use in diverse cultural and linguistic settings.
Disclaimer: This report was prepared by Clark Atlanta University and the Instituto Dominicano De Investigaciones Agropecuarias Y Forestales under a cooperative agreement with the Economic Research Service. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of ERS or USDA.
Keywords: Food security, Dominican Republic, Spanish, hunger, food security measurement, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, FANRP, ERS, USDA
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Updated date: August 11, 2008
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