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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Questions on theCore Food Security Module." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13485.
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Appendix F

Questions on the
Core Food Security Module

Food Insecurity Question

Asked of Households With Children

Asked of Households Without Children

1.   “We worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more.” Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?

X

X

2.   “The food that we bought just didn’t last and we didn’t have money to get more.” Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?

X

X

3.   “We couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals.” Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?

X

X

4.   “We relied on only a few kinds of low-cost food to feed our children because we were running out of money to buy food.” Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?

X

 

5.   In the last 12 months, did you or other adults in the household ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn’t enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

X

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Questions on theCore Food Security Module." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13485.
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Food Insecurity Question

Asked of Households With Children

Asked of Households Without Children

6.   “We couldn’t feed our children a balanced meal, because we couldn’t afford that.” Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?

X

 

7.   In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn’t enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

X

8.   (If yes to Question 5) How often did this happen—almost every month, some months but not every month, or in only 1 or 2 months?

X

X

9.   “The children were not eating enough because we just couldn’t afford enough food.” Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?

X

10.  In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry, but didn’t eat, because you couldn’t afford enough food? (Yes/No)

X

X

11.  In the last 12 months, did you lose weight because you didn’t have enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

X

12.  In the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of any of the children’s meals because there wasn’t enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

 

13.  In the last 12 months did you or other adults in your household ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

X

14.  In the last 12 months, were the children ever hungry but you just couldn’t afford more food? (Yes/No)

X

 

15.  (If yes to Question 13) How often did this happen—almost every month, some months but not every month, or in only 1 or 2 months?

X

X

16.  In the last 12 months, did any of the children ever skip a meal because there wasn’t enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

 

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Questions on theCore Food Security Module." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13485.
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Food Insecurity Question

Asked of Households With Children

Asked of Households Without Children

17.  (If yes to Question 16) How often did this happen—almost every month, some months but not every month, or in only 1 or 2 months?

X

 

18.  In the last 12 months did any of the children ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food? (Yes/No)

X

 

NOTE: Responses in bold indicate an “affirmative” response.
SOURCE: ERS, 2012.

REFERENCE

ERS (Economic Research Service). 2012. U.S. household food security survey module: Three-stage design, with screeners. http://www.ers.usda.gov/datafiles/Food_Security_in_the_United_States/Food_Security_Survey_Modules/hh2012.pdf (accessed August 23, 2012).

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Questions on theCore Food Security Module." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13485.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Questions on theCore Food Security Module." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13485.
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For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on already limited resources and may compel them to make food choices that are contrary to current nutritional guidance. To help alleviate this problem, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers a number of nutrition assistance programs designed to improve access to healthy foods for low-income individuals and households. The largest of these programs is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, which today serves more than 46 million Americans with a program cost in excess of $75 billion annually. The goals of SNAP include raising the level of nutrition among low-income households and maintaining adequate levels of nutrition by increasing the food purchasing power of low-income families.

In response to questions about whether there are different ways to define the adequacy of SNAP allotments consistent with the program goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet, USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a study to examine the feasibility of defining the adequacy of SNAP allotments, specifically: the feasibility of establishing an objective, evidence-based, science-driven definition of the adequacy of SNAP allotments consistent with the program goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet, as well as other relevant dimensions of adequacy; and data and analyses needed to support an evidence-based assessment of the adequacy of SNAP allotments.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy reviews the current evidence, including the peer-reviewed published literature and peer-reviewed government reports. Although not given equal weight with peer-reviewed publications, some non-peer-reviewed publications from nongovernmental organizations and stakeholder groups also were considered because they provided additional insight into the behavioral aspects of participation in nutrition assistance programs. In addition to its evidence review, the committee held a data gathering workshop that tapped a range of expertise relevant to its task.

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