The Challenge of Measuring Hunger through Survey

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ID4360475
AutoresJoachim De Weerdt (0000-0002-5572-3332, University of Antwerp), Kathleen Beegle (0000-0002-7080-7411), Jed Friedman (0000-0002-6763-5890), John Gibson (0000-0003-3886-6873, University of Waikato)
Ano2016
Volume64
Fascículo4
Páginas727-758
Data de publicação2016-07-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/686669
OpenAlexW2340552495
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas36

There is widespread interest in estimating the number of hungry people in the world as well as trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country’s total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for calculating hunger numbers directly from these same surveys, which are increasingly available in low-income countries. For either approach, embedded in this effort are a number of important details about how household surveys are designed and how these data are then used. Using a survey experiment in Tanzania, this study finds great fragility in hunger counts stemming from alternative survey designs. As such, caution should be taken in drawing inferences on hunger over time and space on the basis of household surveys

Consumption (sociology) · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Geography · Household income · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Survey data collection · Survey research · Tanzania · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics

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