Food Security (FS) Section

THE FS SECTION IS ASKED IN ROUNDS 2 AND 4 ONLY.
IF IT IS ROUND 1, 3, OR 5, CONTINUE TO THE NEXT
SECTION.

IF RESPONDENT IS A PROXY (RE02 IS CODED ‘2’
(PROXY APPROVED BY SUPERVISOR) OR IF CASE IS
FLAGGED AS A STUDENT RU, GO TO BOX_03
OTHERWISE, CONTINUE WITH FS01.

These next questions are about whether you were always able to afford
the food you needed in the last 30 days.

PRESS ENTER OR SELECT NEXT PAGE TO CONTINUE.

I’m going to read you several statements that people have made about
their food situation. For these statements, please tell me whether the
statement was often true, sometimes true, or never true for {you/your
family} in the last 30 days.

“In the last 30 days, {I/we} worried whether {my/our} food would run
out before {I/we} got money to buy more.” Was that often, sometimes,
or never true for {you/your family} in the last 30 days?

OFTEN TRUE ............................... 1 {FS03}
SOMETIMES TRUE ........................... 2 {FS03}
NEVER TRUE ............................... 3 {FS03}
REF ..................................... -7 {FS03}
DK ...................................... -8 {FS03}

DISPLAY ‘you’ IF SINGLE PERSON RU OTHERWISE,
DISPLAY ‘your family’.

DISPLAY ‘I’, ‘my’, AND ‘you’ IF SINGLE PERSON RU
OTHERWISE, DISPLAY ‘we’, ‘our’, AND ‘your
family’.

"The food that {I/we} bought just didn’t last and {I/we} didn’t have
money to get more." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for
{you/your family} in the last 30 days?

OFTEN TRUE ............................... 1 {FS04}
SOMETIMES TRUE ........................... 2 {FS04}
NEVER TRUE ............................... 3 {FS04}
REF ..................................... -7 {FS04}
DK ...................................... -8 {FS04}

DISPLAY ‘I’ AND ‘you’ IF SINGLE PERSON RU
OTHERWISE, DISPLAY ‘we’ AND ‘your family’.

‘{I/we} couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals.’ Was that often,
sometimes, or never true for {you/your family} in the last 30 days?

OFTEN TRUE ............................... 1 {BOX_01}
SOMETIMES TRUE ........................... 2 {BOX_01}
NEVER TRUE ............................... 3 {BOX_01}
REF ..................................... -7 {BOX_01}
DK ...................................... -8 {BOX_01}

DISPLAY ‘I’ AND ‘you’ IF SINGLE PERSON RU
OTHERWISE, DISPLAY ‘we’ AND ‘your family’.

THE FS SECTION IS ASKED IN ROUNDS 2 AND 4 ONLY.
IF IT IS ROUND 1, 3, OR 5, CONTINUE TO THE NEXT
SECTION.

IF CODED ‘3’ (NEVER TRUE), DK, OR REF AT FS02 AND
FS03 AND FS04 GO TO BOX_03 OTHERWISE, CONTINUE WITH
FS05.

In the last 30 days did {you/you or other adults in your family} ever
cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn't enough
money for food?

YES ...................................... 1 {FS06}
NO ....................................... 2 {FS07}
REF ..................................... -7 {FS07}
DK ...................................... -8 {FS07}

DISPLAY ‘you’ IF ONLY ONE ADULT RU MEMBER IN
HOUSEHOLD AS OF DATE OF INTERVIEW.
DISPLAY ‘you or other adults in your family’
IF MORE THAN ONE RU MEMBER > OR = 18 YEARS OLD IN
HOUSEHOLD AS OF DATE OF INTERVIEW.

In the last 30 days, how many days did this happen?

[Enter Number of Days] ...................
REF ..................................... -7 {FS07}
DK ...................................... -8 {FS07}

In the last 30 days, did you ever eat less than you felt you should
because there wasn’t enough money for food?

YES ...................................... 1 {FS08}
NO ....................................... 2 {FS08}
REF ..................................... -7 {FS08}
DK ...................................... -8 {FS08}

In the last 30 days, were you ever hungry but didn’t eat because there
wasn’t enough money for food?

YES ...................................... 1 {FS09}
NO ....................................... 2 {FS09}
REF ..................................... -7 {FS09}
DK ...................................... -8 {FS09}

In the last 30 days, did you lose weight because there wasn’t enough
money for food?

YES ...................................... 1 {BOX_02}
NO ....................................... 2 {BOX_02}
REF ..................................... -7 {BOX_02}
DK ...................................... -8 {BOX_02}

IF CODED ‘2’, DK, OR REF AT FS07 AND FS08 AND FS09
GO TO BOX_03 OTHERWISE, CONTINUE WITH FS10.

In the last 30 days, did {you/you or other adults in your family} ever
not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food?

YES ...................................... 1 {FS11}
NO ....................................... 2 {BOX_03}
REF ..................................... -7 {BOX_03}
DK ...................................... -8 {BOX_03}

In the last 30 days, how many days did this happen?

[Enter Number of Days] ...................
REF ..................................... -7 {BOX_03}
DK ...................................... -8 {BOX_03}