Food insecurity in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic plain: Taking a closer look.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food security is an important policy issue in India. As India recently ranked 107th out of 121 countries in the 2022 Global Hunger Index, there is an urgent need to dissect, and gain insights into, such a major decline at the national level. However, the existing surveys, due to small sample sizes, cannot be used directly to produce reliable estimates at local administrative levels such as districts.

Design

The latest round of available data from the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES 2011-12) done by the National Sample Survey Office of India used stratified multi-stage random sampling with districts as strata, villages as first stage and households as second stage units.

Setting

Our Small Area Estimation approach estimated food insecurity prevalen

SUBMITTER: Pyne S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9815573 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature