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Table 1

Measures of rural households’ food insecurity and their threshold values

Measures of food security	Category values	Category labels	Thresholds
FIAS	1	Food-secure	[0, 1]
	2	Mildly food-insecure	[2, 13]
	3	Moderately food-insecure	[14, 16]
	4	Severely food-insecure	[17, 27]
FIES	1	Food-secure	[ 0 ]
	2	Mildly food-insecure	[1, 3]
	3	Moderately food-insecure	[4, 6]
	4	Severely food-insecure	[7, 8]

Measures of food security	Category values	Category labels	Thresholds
FIAS	1	Food-secure	[0, 1]
	2	Mildly food-insecure	[2, 13]
	3	Moderately food-insecure	[14, 16]
	4	Severely food-insecure	[17, 27]
FIES	1	Food-secure	[ 0 ]
	2	Mildly food-insecure	[1, 3]
	3	Moderately food-insecure	[4, 6]
	4	Severely food-insecure	[7, 8]

Source(s): Authors’ compilation from literature, 2024