Summarizes recent work in the food security area and methods used to measure food security; also describes analytic and empirical issues related to analyzing food security data.

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Summarizes recent work in the food security area and methods used to measure food security; also describes analytic and empirical issues related to analyzing food security data.

Most major population surveys used by social scientists are based on complex sampling designs where sampling units have different probabilities of being selected. Although sampling weights must generally be used to derive unbiased estimates of univariate population characteristics, the decision...