Affiliations: [a] U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Kansas City, MO, USA | [b] The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Corresponding author: Matthew P. Rabbitt, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 805 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO 64105, USA. Tel.: +1 816 823 5300; E-mail: matthew.rabbitt@usda.gov.
Abstract: We explore the dimensionality of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s household food security survey module among households with children. Using a novel methodological approach to measuring food security, we find that there is multidimensionality in the module for households with children that is associated with the overall household, adult, and child dimensions of food security. Additional analyses suggest official estimates of food security among households with children are robust to this multidimensionality. However, we also find that accounting for the multidimensionality of food security among these households provides new insights into the correlates of food security at the household, adult, and child levels of measurement.
