The Development of Food Insecurity Index of Household Level Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Diposting oleh Sri Sumarmi
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Sri Sumarmi*, S. Melaniani**, Lutfi Agus Salim*** and M. Taufik***
*Departemen Gizi Kesehatan FKM Unair Surabaya
**Departemen Biostatistik dan Kependudukan FKM Unair Surabaya
***Badan Ketahanan Pangan Propinsi Jawa Timur

Food insecurity is a current issue in Indonesia and still necessary an appropriate strategy to handle it.  Because of various factors that caused the food insecurity and hunger among regions, it is needed the sensitive and specific indicators to know the early sign of hunger in household level. The objective of this research was to develop the model of food insecurity index in household level.  Index was developed based on the data set collected from 768 household in a cross sectional study conducted at 8 district areas in East Java.  Some data was extracted as predictor variables that construct the indicator and index, such as: family characteristic, access for health services, access for clean water and electricity, access for food, household food availability, intake of energy and protein, frequency and food variability in household level, and nutritional status of mother and children under 5 years.  Index was developed by using the confirmatory factor analysis.  Based on the analysis, there were 4 significant predictor variables that build the model of food insecurity index: 1) socio-economy, 2) food consumption pattern, 3) nutritional factors of the children under 5 year and 4) nutritional factors of the mother.

Key word :  food insecurity, household, indicator,  index


[1] Paper presented at Widya Karya Nasional Pangan dan Gizi IX , Jakarta, August 2008
Research financial supported by : Food Security Board East Java Province (2006)