Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide, Version 3, August 2007

The production of the HFIAS guide represents a significant advance in our ability to measure the access component of household food insecurity. Since it does represent a new approach, however, it is important to continue to increase our understanding of how the set of nine HFIAS questions captures the experience of food insecurity in diverse populations. We need to test the underlying assumptions empirically using a standardized protocol, which FANTA is developing. FANTA would like to continue our collaborative development process with users of the HFIAS guide. We urge program managers to share HFIAS data sets with us, and will make the analysis protocol available to organizations interested in testing the HFIAS assumption directly. To share data sets or request the analysis protocol, please contact: fantamail@aed.org.

In August 2007, Version 3 of the guide was released. The new version offers an updated questionnaire section.