How does Connecticut rate?

Connecticut, average 1998-2000

	Total	Food Insecure	Food Insecure with Hunger
Percent of Households (%)	100.0	8.17	2.90
Number of Households (thousands)	1,299	105	38
Number of People in Households (thousands)	3,355	280	96
Rank (out of 51)	--	43t*	29

Food Security Definitions

Extensive research has led to the following definitions, which are foundational to the food security measurement paradigm used in the CPS Food Security Supplements.²

• Food security refers to access to enough food at all times for an active and healthy life. At a minimum, food security includes: the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies, for example).

• Food insecurity occurs whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways, is limited or uncertain.

• Hunger is the uneasy or painful sensation caused by a recurrent or involuntary lack of food and is a potential, although not necessary consequence of food insecurity. Over time, hunger may result in malnutrition.

* Tied ranking

Source: A. Sullivan and E. Choi (August 2002). Hunger and Food Insecurity in the Fifty States: 1998-2000. Waltham, MA: Food Security, Center on Hunger and Poverty.

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See complete report at: http://www.centeronhunger.org/pdf/statedata98-00.pdf

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