Table 4 Prevalence and severity of...

Table 4

Prevalence and severity of household food insecurity in the UAE

Items	Item severity		Infit		% affirmative response on non-extreme sample^a	Severity of household food insecurity			% affirmative responses on complete sample^b
Items	Mean	SE	Statistic	SE	% affirmative response on non-extreme sample^a	Raw score	Severity	SE	% affirmative responses on complete sample^b
WORRIED	−2.92	0.16	0.81	0.07	77.34	0	−4.26	1.55	34.13
HEALTHY	−2.69	0.16	1.39	0.07	73.11	1	−3.34	1.22	18.85
FEWFOODS	−2.08	0.16	0.74	0.08	62.54	2	−2.06	1.11	14.29
SKIPPED	0.24	0.19	1.15	0.12	30.21	3	−0.74	1.19	11.31
ATELESS	1.54	0.21	0.98	0.12	15.41	4	0.65	1.15	11.90
RANOUT	2.14	0.23	0.96	0.14	10.27	5	1.94	1.14	6.75
HUNGRY	3.78	0.38	0.95	0.29	2.42	6	3.40	1.32	2.58
						7	4.45	1.55	0.20
Rasch reliability									0.74
Moderate or severe food insecurity prevalence rate									22.44%
Severe food insecurity prevalence rate									0.02%

Items	Item severity		Infit		% affirmative response on non-extreme sample^a	Severity of household food insecurity			% affirmative responses on complete sample^b
Items	Mean	SE	Statistic	SE	% affirmative response on non-extreme sample^a	Raw score	Severity	SE	% affirmative responses on complete sample^b
WORRIED	−2.92	0.16	0.81	0.07	77.34	0	−4.26	1.55	34.13
HEALTHY	−2.69	0.16	1.39	0.07	73.11	1	−3.34	1.22	18.85
FEWFOODS	−2.08	0.16	0.74	0.08	62.54	2	−2.06	1.11	14.29
SKIPPED	0.24	0.19	1.15	0.12	30.21	3	−0.74	1.19	11.31
ATELESS	1.54	0.21	0.98	0.12	15.41	4	0.65	1.15	11.90
RANOUT	2.14	0.23	0.96	0.14	10.27	5	1.94	1.14	6.75
HUNGRY	3.78	0.38	0.95	0.29	2.42	6	3.40	1.32	2.58
						7	4.45	1.55	0.20
Rasch reliability									0.74
Moderate or severe food insecurity prevalence rate									22.44%
Severe food insecurity prevalence rate									0.02%

Note(s): ^aPercentage of affirmative responses based on the non-zero raw score sample (N = 331), i.e. excluding fully food secure respondents. ^bPercentage of affirmative responses based on the complete sample (N = 504)

Source(s): Authors' work

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