The Challenge of Measuring Hunger

De Weerdt, Joachim ; Beegle, Kathleen ; Friedman, Jed ; Gibson, John

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO FOOD;    AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT;    AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS;    AGRICULTURE;    ANIMAL FEED;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6736
RP-ID  :  WPS6736

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

There is widespread interest in thenumber of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger.Current global counts rely on combining each country'stotal food balance with information on distribution patternsfrom household consumption expenditure surveys. Recentresearch has advocated for calculating hunger numbersdirectly from these same surveys. For either approach,embedded in this effort are a number of important detailsabout how household surveys are designed and how these dataare then used. Using a survey experiment in Tanzania, thisstudy finds great fragility in hunger counts stemming fromalternative survey designs. As a consequence, comparable andvalid hunger numbers will be lacking until more effort ismade to either harmonize survey designs or better understandthe consequences of survey design variation.