OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of a locally adapted Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) in the measurement of household food insecurity (FI) in the city of Tehran. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING Urban households were selected through a systematic cluster sampling method from six different districts of Tehran. The socio-economic status of households was evaluated using ...

This article presents a comparative model for the results of the 1996 and 1991 censuses, based on the relations indicated by the results from 1991. The authors conduct a reclassification of the social quality index (SQI) proposed by Najar (1997) for comparison of the two censuses, controlling for the variable "heads of households with 15 or more years of schooling". As is known, the 1996 census...

The main objective of the study was to examine the determinants of households’ food security using a logistic regression procedure. The model was initially fitted with eleven factors, of which six were found to be significant, and all exhibited the expected signs. These include farmland size, ox ownership, fertilizer application, education level of household heads, household size, and per capit...

The Peruvian society has achieved significant improvements in terms of lower fertility and mortality over the last forty years leading, on average, to a demographic transition with lower dependency ratios. We analyze the implications of these changes at the micro level by constructing pseudo panels from household level data for Peru. We calculate age, cohort and year effects for variables relat...

Introduction: Several Nigerians are completely denied access to adequate health care because of cultural, temporal and financial factors with inequity. Objectives: To ascertain the household perceptions, willingness to pay, benefit package preferences, and health systems readiness for Insurance Scheme. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 400 heads of households and 43 health workers in Enugu, S...

Analysis of Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Empowerment Women Heads Rural Households in Sarab County

BACKGROUND High food prices have emerged as a major global challenge, especially for poor and urban households in low-income countries such as Ethiopia. However, there is little empirical evidence on urban food security and how people living in urban areas are coping with sustained high food prices. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the food insecurity situation in urban Ethi...