data.FAO_country2: Food insecurity data for a GWP pilot country (Country2).

In RM.weights: Weighted Rasch Modeling and Extensions using Conditional Maximum Likelihood

Description

The dataset includes the FIES data (Food Insecurity Experience based Scale), sampling weights, and some demographic variables for a sample country (Country2). Data have been collected by the Gallup World Poll.

Arguments

WORRIED	FIES question n. 1. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you were worried you would run out of food because of lack of money or other resources?
HEALTHY	FIES question n. 2. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you were unable to eat healty and nutritious food because of lack of money or other resources?
FEWFOOD	FIES question n. 3. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you ate only few kinds of food because of lack of money or other resources?
SKIPPED	FIES question n. 4. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you had to skip a meal because of lack of money or other resources?
ATELESS	FIES question n. 5. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you ate less than you thought you should because of lack of money or other resources?
RUNOUT	FIES question n. 6. During the past 12 months, was there a time when your household ran out of food because of lack of money or other resources?
HUNGRY	FIES question n. 7. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you were hungry but did not eat because of lack of money or other resources?
WHLDAY	FIES question n. 8. During the past 12 months, was there a time when you went without eating for a whole day because of lack of money or other resources?
gender	Respondents' gender.
age	Respondents' age.
education	Respondents' education.
urbanrural	Respondents' area (urban or rural).
wt	Sampling weights.

Author(s)

Sara Viviani [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
data(data.FAO_country2)
# Matrix of questionnaire data and weights (for the Rasch analysis)
XX.country2 = data.FAO_country2[,1:8]
wt.country2 = data.FAO_country2$wt

## End(Not run)

Example output

Loading required package: psychotools
Loading required package: Hmisc
Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: survival
Loading required package: Formula
Loading required package: ggplot2

Attaching package: 'Hmisc'

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units

RM.weights documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:09 a.m.