The 18 Household Food Security Survey items provide valid food security classifications for adults and children in the Caribbean

Table 4 Association of food security status with ethnicity and monthly household income. Figures are frequencies (row percent).

	Adult-referenced classification^a				Child-referenced classification^b
	Total	Food insecure without hunger	Food insecure with moderate hunger	Food insecure with severe hunger	Total	Food insecure without hunger	Food insecure with hunger
All	3774^c	720 (19)	374 (10)	213 (6)	3776^d	885 (23)	351 (9)
Ethnicity
Afro-Caribbean	1225	255 (21)	122 (10)	81 (7)	1222	281 (23)	137 (11)
Indo-Caribbean	1067	171 (16)	96 (9)	61 (6)	1065	253 (24)	87 (8)
Mixed	1381	270 (20)	142 (10)	66 (5)	1383	323 (23)	116 (8)
Other and not known	101	24 (24)	14 (14)	5 (5)	106	28 (26)	11 (10)
Monthly household income (US$)
≤ 33	80	14 (18)	28 (35)	19 (24)	81	32 (40)	33 (41)
34–67	219	57 (26)	53 (24)	47 (21)	220	82 (37)	69 (31)
68–133	471	142 (30)	88 (18)	65 (13)	472	178 (38)	95 (20)
134–267	800	217 (27)	101 (13)	42 (5)	801	257 (32)	84 (10)
268–533	801	137 (17)	53 (7)	11 (1)	798	171 (21)	23 (3)
534–1067	561	64 (11)	12 (2)	1 (0)	558	60 (11)	6 (1)
1068–2133	279	13 (5)	3 (1)	0 (0)	280	15 (5)	2 (1)
≥ 2134	98	6 (6)	1 (1)	0 (0)	95	6 (6)	0 (0)
Not known	465	70 (15)	35 (8)	28 (6)	471	84 (17)	39 (8)

^a adult-referenced classification: food insecure without hunger, three to five affirmatives; food insecure with moderate hunger six to eight affirmatives; food insecure with severe hunger, nine or ten affirmatives (reference 9)
^b child-referenced classification: food insecure without hunger, two to four affirmatives; food insecure with hunger, 5 or more affirmatives (reference 10)
^c 84 cases had 'not known' values for food security classification based on adult-items
^d 82 cases had 'not known' values for food security classification based on child-items

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