Measuring the prevalence of hunger in the Philippines directly from food consumption data

• Main Authors: Arcilla, Rechel Guino, Albacea, Zita VJ, David, Isidoro P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Hunger > Philippines; Hunger > Measurement; Food consumption > Philippines; Poverty > Philippines; Statistics and Probability
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11991
• Institution: De La Salle University

Two methodologies for measuring prevalence of hunger, defined as the consumption of a diet inadequate to sustain good health and normal activity, growth and development, were developed using the 2003 Food Consumption Survey. The first methodology compared per capita energy consumption using the divi...