Determining Food Insecurity: An Application of the Rasch Model with Household Survey Data in Uganda

Table 5

Descriptive statistics for household food security for Tororo and Busia districts.

Household score on food security scale
Descriptive statistics	Tororo	Busia
Mean	0.137	0.768
Standard error	0.092	0.090
Median	0.290	1.027
Mode	2.008	2.558
Standard deviation	2.040	2.078
Sample variance	4.163	4.317
Kurtosis	−0.663	−0.315
Skewness	−0.190	−0.419
Range	8.030	8.144
Minimum	−3.933	−3.919
Maximum	4.097	4.225
Largest (10)	4.097	4.225
Smallest (10)	−3.933	−3.919
Confidence level (95%)	0.181	0.177

Source: primary data from the survey.