Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2020

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COD_2020_FIES_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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FAO Statistics Division

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Data file: COD_2020_FIES_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

Cases:	6277
Variables:	22

Variables

Random_ID

Unique respondent identifier

WORRIED

Worried you would not have enough food to eat because of a lack of money or other resources

HEALTHY

Unable to eat healthy and nutritious food because of a lack of money or other resources

FEWFOOD

Ate only a few kinds of foods because of a lack of money or other resources

SKIPPED

Skipped a meal because there was not enough money or other resources to get food

ATELESS

Ate less than you thought you should because of a lack of money or other resources

RUNOUT

Household ran out of food because of a lack of money or other resources

HUNGRY

Hungry but did not eat because there was not enough money or other resources for food?

WHLDAY

Went without eating for a whole day because of a lack of money or other resources?

wt

Post-stratification sampling weights

year

Year when the study was administered in the country

N_adults

Number of adults 15 years of age and above in household

N_child

Number of children under 15 years of age in household

Raw_score

Sum of Affirmative responses to FIES questions

Raw_score_par

Estimated person parameters using the Rasch model

Raw_score_par_error

Estimated person parameter errors using the Rasch model

Prob_Mod_Sev

Probability of being moderately or severely food insecure

Prob_sev

Probability of being severely food insecure

Age

Age of the respondent

Education

Education of the respondent

Area

Gender

Gender of the respondent

Total: 22

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