Household Food Security in the United States in 2016
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...Median household food spending relative to the cost of the TFP—which adjusts for food price inflation and adjusts more precisely for the food needs of persons in different age-gender categories—was 1.24, essentially unchanged from 1.22 in 2016 (Coleman-Jensen et al., 2017)....
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...19Estimates of food insecurity and very low food security for 2016 were published in Household Food Security in the United States in 2016 (Coleman-Jensen et al., 2017)....
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...Changes in food spending from 2016 described in the text are based on comparable estimates of 2016 categorical food-spending data published in Coleman-Jensen et al. (2017)....
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...Based on a threshold of three or more items affirmed on the HFSSM, over 12 % of households in the USA are food insecure((13))....
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...In concept, “food secure” means that all household members had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life (Anderson, 1990)....
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...In concept, “food secure” means that all household members had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life (Anderson, 1990).9 The remaining 12.3 percent (15.6 million households) were food insecure at some time during the year....
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...19Prevalence rates for 1996-98 reported in Prevalence of Food Insecurity and Hunger, by State, 1996-1998 (Nord et al., 1999) are not directly comparable with the rates reported here because of differences in screening procedures in the CPS Food Security Supplements from 1995 to 1998....
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...About 7.7 percent of households interviewed in the CPS food security survey did not respond to the food-spending questions or reported zero usual food spending and were excluded from the analysis....
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...The food security status of each interviewed household is determined by the number of food-insecure conditions and behaviors the household 2In 2016, 22.3 percent of households that responded to the monthly December CPS did not complete the Food Security Supplement....
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...For years before 2011, standard errors of national estimates use a design factor of 1.6 based on the complex CPS sample design....
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...Source: USDA, Economic Research Service using data from U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2014, 2015, and 2016 Current Population Survey (CPS) Food Security Supplements....
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...4The methods used to measure the extent and severity of food insecurity have been described in a number of studies (Hamilton et al., 1997a, 1997b; Andrews et al., 1998; Bickel et al., 1998; Carlson et al., 1999; Bickel et al., 2000; Nord and Bickel, 2002)....
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