Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Consumption versus Acquisition approaches for deriving Food Security Statistics --- Cape Verde 2001/02 IDRF

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Republic of Cape Verde 9 islands Population GDP per capita – Usd 2 Poverty rate – 36,7% 2 Unemployment rate – 16,2% 2 Non qualified workers rate – 27,8% 1 1 Source: INE Source: OPES 2002

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels IDRF 2001/02 October 2001 to October HH, 2610 in urban areas and 2142 in rural areas. Food consumption data Food acquisition : - consumption from the economic point of view - all daily purchases and other daily food items - two-week household reference period. - sample of 4550 HH Food intake : - consumption from the nutritional point of view - all daily food items actually used for consumption - one-week household reference period in a sub- sample of 2028 HH

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Purpose of this paper Discuss differences between acquisition-based and intake-based food security statistics

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Sampled households

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Selection bias in sampling households for intake: Expenditures lower

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Lower Dietary Energy levels when comparing intake and acquisition from same sample

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels The acquired dietary energy lower than intake in low income level households Dietary energy by total expenditure

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels over estimation of food deprivation as a result of under-estimation of dietary energy from acquisition in low income groups

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels The intake dietary energy is higher in proteins and fats than the acquired dietary energy

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Dietary energy unit value higher for intake than acquisition

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Food intake was more equally distributed than food acquired as measured by the CV of dietary energy

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Analysis of food Security indicators from IDRF 2001/02 using the intake approach

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Linear relationship between Dietary energy intake and Dietary Energy from acquisition

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels With about 40 percent of people undernourished, food deprivation was high in Cap Verde in 2001/02 and differed at sub national levels

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Differences in food deprivation at sub national levels were mainly due to

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Levels of Dietary Energy intake : lower in low income group and for urban areas

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Different values of Minimum dietary energy requirements at national and sub national levels

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels.... Yet few differences in CV of dietary energy intake

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels For food insecurity assessment purposes it is important to consider collecting food data using the consumption or intake approach as acquisition approach tends to over estimate food consumed and therefore under estimate food deprivation … Conclusion

Statistics Division Beijing, China 25 October, 2007 EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme Side Event Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels Thank You