摘要：As awareness of the population health importance of household food insecurity and its relation to public policy decisions grows, interest in food insecurity statistics is burgeoning at the provincial, municipal, and regional levels. The publicly available data on its prevalence are insufficient to support stakeholders’ interests and needs for timely, locally relevant information. Several jurisdictions fail to measure food insecurity when its inclusion on the Canadian Community Health Survey is optional. We recommend mandatory measurement annually, with routine reporting of the total number of persons living in food insecure households and marginal food insecurity counted as part of food insecurity.
