Gallup World Poll 2013, June
Afghanistan, Angola, Albania...and 183 more, 2005 - 2012
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WLD_2013_GWP-JUN_v01_M
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INDEX_FS Food and Shelter Index (INDEX_FS)
Data file: The_Gallup_062813
Overview
Valid:
1042440
Invalid:
56843
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
100
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
150
End:
152
Width:
3
Range:
0 - 100
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 150088 |
14.4%
|
|
| 1 | 1 Index Score | 0 |
0%
|
| 50 | 211873 |
20.3%
|
|
| 100 | 680479 |
65.3%
|
|
| Sysmiss | 56843 |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Description
Definition
The Food and Shelter Index measures whether a respondent has experienced deprivation in the areas of food and shelter. Two items that ask about respondents' ability to afford food or shelter in the past year compose this index. Lower scores on this index indicate that more respondents reported struggling to afford food and shelter in the past year, while higher scores indicate fewer respondents reported such struggles. As would be expected, respondents in wealthier countries are more likely than those in lesser developed nations to report having adequate food and shelter. However, even in the wealthiest countries, some percentage of the population indicates a struggle to provide food or adequate shelter. The Food and Shelter Index serves as an effective summary measure and indicator of the prevalence of poverty across individuals in a group, country, or region.
The validity of the Food and Shelter Index is supported by a pattern of strong correlations with wealth and health measures, particularly those that focus on poverty. Externally, the index correlates strongly with per-capita GDP (PPP), the poverty rate, the United Nations Human Development Index, the percentage of the population undernourished, infant mortality, and life expectancy. The Food and Shelter Index also correlates with other Gallup Worldwide Research indexes: Community Basics, measures of Wellbeing, Youth Development, and Corruption.
INDEX QUESTIONS
- Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed? (WP40)
- Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to provide adequate shelter or housing for you and your family? (WP43)
INDEX CONSTRUCTION
Index scores are calculated at the individual record level. For each individual record the following procedure applies: The two items are recoded so that positive (or favorable) answers are scored a "1" and all other answers (including don't know and refused) are assigned a score of "0." If a record has no answer for an item, then that item is not eligible for inclusion in the calculations. An individual record has an index calculated if it has valid scores for both questions. A record's final index score is the mean of valid items multiplied by 100. The final country-level index score is the mean of all individual records for which an index score was calculated. Country-level weights are applied to this calculation.
RELIABILITY
The Food and Shelter Index has a Cronbach's alpha of .82 when aggregated at the country level.
The validity of the Food and Shelter Index is supported by a pattern of strong correlations with wealth and health measures, particularly those that focus on poverty. Externally, the index correlates strongly with per-capita GDP (PPP), the poverty rate, the United Nations Human Development Index, the percentage of the population undernourished, infant mortality, and life expectancy. The Food and Shelter Index also correlates with other Gallup Worldwide Research indexes: Community Basics, measures of Wellbeing, Youth Development, and Corruption.
INDEX QUESTIONS
- Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed? (WP40)
- Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to provide adequate shelter or housing for you and your family? (WP43)
INDEX CONSTRUCTION
Index scores are calculated at the individual record level. For each individual record the following procedure applies: The two items are recoded so that positive (or favorable) answers are scored a "1" and all other answers (including don't know and refused) are assigned a score of "0." If a record has no answer for an item, then that item is not eligible for inclusion in the calculations. An individual record has an index calculated if it has valid scores for both questions. A record's final index score is the mean of valid items multiplied by 100. The final country-level index score is the mean of all individual records for which an index score was calculated. Country-level weights are applied to this calculation.
RELIABILITY
The Food and Shelter Index has a Cronbach's alpha of .82 when aggregated at the country level.