The federal government has conducted the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module for more than 25 years. The data collected annually from about 50,000 U.S. households helps form estimates of the scale of food insecurity – not having access to enough food for a healthy life – at the national and state levels.
But the way Latino parents respond to some of the questions in the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture survey used to measure food insecurity doesn’t always reflect their true experiences. We published this finding in a special October 2023 issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
