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Food Security in Rural Cambodia and Fishing in the Mekong in the Light of Declining Fish Stocks

Table A3 Weights applied per question

No.

For the worst week between 05/13 and 04/14 please indicate
the number of days that your household experienced the
following:

Weight

1

… you were not able to eat the kinds of food you preferred?

2.75

2

… you borrowed food or relied on help from a friend or relative?

3

… you purchased food on credit?

2.25

4

… you gathered wild food or hunted?

2.25

5

… you harvested immature crops?

3.5

6

… you consumed see stock held for next season?

7

… you sent household members to elsewhere?

3.5

8

... you sent household members to beg?

3.5

9

… you ate a smaller mean than you felt you needed?

10

… you fed working members at the expense of non-working members?

2.5

11

… you ate fewer meals in a day?

2.5

12

… you restricted consumption by adults in order for small children to eat?

2.25

13

… you went a whole day and night without eating?

3.5

1

4

2

As the CSI is site specific, the
reduced or comparative CSI was developed
to enable comparison across contexts
(Maxwell, Caldwell, and Langworthy
2008). The rCSi is based on a subset of
only five questions (see Table A4) and has

universal weights. These questions are
based on coping behaviors found to be
applied across many countries. The rCSI
reflects food security nearly as good as the
CSI (Maxwell, Caldwell, and Langworthy
2008).

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