Prevalence and correlates of the food insecurity experience among Australian adults in 2020: results from the household, income and labour dynamics in Australia population survey

Abstract

Australian government food insecurity monitoring and surveillance is sub-optimal and often limited to one or two measures that do not capture food insecurity experience. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey is a large, population representative survey of Australian households that has been implemented annually since 2001. In 2020 the eight item self-assessed Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) instrument which documents the depth of the lived experience of food insecurity was introduced to the survey. This paper describes the prevalence and correlates of each item of the food insecurity experience amongst the Australian adult population. Overall, 14% of the ..