Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper no. 1083-96 Estimating the Prevalence of Hunger and Food Insecurity: The Validity of Questionnaire-Based Measures for the Identification of Households Edward A. Frongillo, Jr., Barbara S. Rauschenbach, Christine M. Olson, Anne Kendall, and Ana G. Colmenares Division of Nutritional Sciences Cornell University April 1996 This paper was submitted to the Institute for Research on Poverty as the final report of a project funded under IRP’s 1994 Small Grants Program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Service (Agreement Number 990T916, between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Cornell University). The authors are grateful to Wendy S. Wolfe, Katherine Alaimo, and Ann-Marie Hamelin, members of the Cornell Hunger and Food Insecurity Measurement Group, and to Kathleen M. P. Hanson for discussions that were helpful in the development of this research.