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

Table 6

Rasch model item fit statistics for Tororo and Busia districts.

Item	Tororo district (df = 489)		Busia district (df = 530)
	Outfit	MSQ	Outfit	MSQ
E1	0.803	1.116	2.214	1.222
E2	3.876	1.035	1.088	0.989
E3	3.981	1.121	3.286	1.293
E4	1.749	0.952	0.672	0.882
E5	1.124	1.027	0.805	1.114
E6	0.782	0.903	0.784	0.71
E7	0.777	0.889	0.616	0.845
E8	1.181	1.093	1.175	1.182
E9	0.547	0.685	0.569	0.738
E10	0.853	0.86	0.679	0.809
E11	1.487	1.244	1.386	1.181
E12	0.82	0.886	1.075	1.055
E13	1.168	0.823	2.017	1.015
E14	0.521	0.686	0.607	0.722
E15	0.68	0.732	0.624	0.829
E16	0.576	0.817	0.496	0.722
E17	0.803	0.78	0.754	0.759
E18	2.313	1.133	0.912	1.015
Average score	1.336	0.932	1.098	0.949

Source: primary data from the survey.