Voices of the Hungry

Resources

The following resources include technical and country reports, Voices of the Hungry Project communication materials, journal articles, and information on the statistical software package developed for analysis of FIES data. Use the drop-down menu to locate the type of resource you are interested in.

Methods

Métodos para la estimación de índices comparables de prevalencia de la inseguridad alimentaria experimentada por adultos en todo el mundo. Voices of the Hungry Reporte Técnico Número 1/Agosto 2016
El objetivo principal del informe consiste en permitir a los analistas de la seguridad alimentaria que evalúen la solidez estadísticas y pertinencia de los métodos descritos.
Introduction to item response theory applied to food security measurement - Basic Concepts, Parameters and Statistics
This paper presents basic concepts and mathematics underlying the Rasch model, commonly used to assess food security data.
Modeling Food Insecurity in Bivariate and Regression Analyses
These guidelines are intended to help in the preparation of proposals to the FAO VoH project for access to the Gallup World Poll (GWP) data.
Validity and reliability of food security measures. Article published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
This paper reviews some of the existing food security indicators, discussing the validity of the underlying concept and the reliability of measures. It highlights existing trade-offs between different qualities of possible food security measurement tools that must be taken into account when such tools are proposed for practical application, especially for use within an international monitoring framework.