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Calculating Food Insecurity for Bangladesh DHS 2011 [message #29436] Tue, 18 June 2024 23:02 Go to next message
laurenbroyles is currently offline  laurenbroyles
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Hi, I see that in the Bangladesh DHS 2011 reports, there is data for levels of food insecurity. I am having trouble knowing which variables to use and which files they're stored in. I was referring to this page: https://dhsprogram.com/data/Guide-to-DHS-Statistics/Organiza tion_of_DHS_Data.htm, but I don't see any variables labeled with anything like (hf1-hfs8, hfs_mod, hfs_sev) in any of the recode files.

Thank you in advance for your help!
Re: Calculating Food Insecurity for Bangladesh DHS 2011 [message #29445 is a reply to message #29436] Thu, 20 June 2024 10:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

It appears that this survey preceded the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) that is now used. An earlier version of the FIES is described on pages 191 and 195 of the final report on the 2011 survey. The relevant variables are s1001 through s1005 in the IR file:

. describe s100*

              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
s1001           byte    %8.0g      s1001      three square meals in the past 12 months
s1002           byte    %8.0g      s1002      skip entire meals in the past 12 months
s1003           byte    %8.0g      s1003      eat less food in the past 12 months
s1004           byte    %8.0g      s1004      eat wheat or rice in the past 12 months
s1005           byte    %8.0g      s1005      ask food from relatives or neighbors in the past 12 months

These 5 variables have the following response categories:

           1 mostly
           2 sometimes
           3 rarely (1-6 times this year)
           4 never


If you recode them, say as "gen s1001r=4-s1001", and then add them, the total will range from 0 to 15. The construction of the categories shown in table 11.10.1 is described on page 195.

The current FIES uses 8 questions, rather than 5. I expect there is a strong correspondence between the current version and the earlier version but you would have to be careful analyzing trends. Hope this helps.


Re: Calculating Food Insecurity for Bangladesh DHS 2011 [message #29446 is a reply to message #29445] Thu, 20 June 2024 10:18 Go to previous message
laurenbroyles is currently offline  laurenbroyles
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Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!
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