Section 6

6 - Clients: Food Insecurity and Hunger

A scaling tool recently developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides an important approach which is being increasingly used to assess food security and hunger among households, and the questions needed to operationalize this scale were included in the client survey. This chapter begins by assessing A2H clients' levels of food security, first for all households in the A2H system and then separately for households with children and for households with elderly members. Subsequent sections then provide data on household responses to the specific questions used in constructing the food security scores.