The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FES) quantifies food insecurity on the basis of quantitative data generated from asking respondents to answer the following eight questions:
During the last 12 months, was there a time when, because of lack of money or other resources:
1. You were worried you would not have enough food to eat?
2. You were unable to eat healthy and nutritious food?
3. You ate only a few kinds of foods?
4. You had to skip a meal?
5. You ate less than you thought you should?
6. Your household ran out of food?
7. You were hungry but did not eat?
8. You went without eating for a whole day?
This is the scale that the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) uses to measure food insecurity in Uganda at household level. According to UBOS, its data collectors put the eight questions to a household member, which responses the member makes on behalf of the household.
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