Section 6.1.1

Clients responded to a six-item short module for classifying households by food security status level. Food security scale scores were assigned and households were classified according to the "Guide to Measuring Household Food Security, Revised 2000.

Source
This table was constructed based on usable responses to Questions 42, 43, 44, 44a, 45, 46, and 47 of the client survey.

Notes
The percentages presented in this table are based only on usable responses, excluding missing, don't know, and refusal responses. All usable responses were weighted as described in Chapter 3 and in the Technical Appendix volume to represent all emergency food clients of the A2H network. The sample sizes (N) also include missing data.

Constructed according to "Guide to Measuring Household Food Security, Revised 2000."

For all households, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 2.1% for pantry clients, 1.8% for kitchen clients, 0.8% for shelter clients, and 2.0% for all clients.

For households with children younger than age 18, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 1.5% for pantry clients, 0.3% for kitchen clients, 0.1% for shelter clients, and 1.4% for all clients.

For households with seniors, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 2.3% for pantry clients, 3.4% for kitchen clients, 0.2% for shelter clients, and 2.4% for all clients.

According to the six-item short module, 33.9% of all client households of the emergency food programs were food insecure without hunger. Another 36.7% were food insecure with hunger. Combined, a total of 70.6% were food insecure.

• Among the client households with children younger than age 18, 38.3% were food insecure without hunger and 37.4% were food insecure with hunger.
• Among the client households with seniors age 65 years or older, 34.2% were food insecure without hunger and 19.7% were food insecure with hunger.