Food security in rural and urban Venezuelan households on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
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The instrument was applied to 808 heads of households living in the municipalities of Torbes and Fernández Feo in the State of Táchira in Venezuela. These are households in a situation of economic vulnerability. The variable defined as the dependent variable: "On some occasion when there was no food in the household" through a dichotomous response category: 1 = Yes and 2 = No. The research hypotheses were: 1. H0: There is no significant evidence of a significant relationship or association between the time when there was no food in the household and the household's access to the CLAP box. 2. H0: there is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and a member of the household having received money through a government voucher or mission. 3. H0: there is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and a member of the household went to bed hungry. 4. H0: There is no significant evidence of a significant relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and a household member went a whole day and night without food. 5. H0: There is no significant evidence of a significant relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and difficulties in acquiring food due to lack of income. 6. H0: there is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between occasions when there was no food in the household and asking for help from friends and family to feed themselves. 7. H0: there is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and reduced portion sizes at meal times. 8. H0: there is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and having restricted the amount of food consumed by adults so that children can eat. 9. H0: There is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and a reduced number of meals per day. 10. H0: There is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and at least one of the household members receiving a food basket or bag as a benefit for his or her work. 11. H0: there is no significant evidence of a relationship or association between the occasion when there was no food in the household and receiving food or help to buy food from an organization other than the school canteen. Mediante las pruebas de Chi-cuadrado de Pearson y Chi-cuadrado de razón de verosimilitud y el estadístico V de Cramer, se midió la fuerza de asociación, a un nivel de confianza del 5%, excluyendo las que resultaron sin relación estadísticamente significativa.. Only 7 variables were statistically significant.
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The starting point is a cross-sectional or prevalence field research, the sample was obtained by a procedure that included, in a first stage, and based on previous studies and metadata, the identification of the municipalities in the state of Táchira with the greatest socio-economic problems, selecting, among them, the municipalities of Torbes and Fernández Feo, in the southern border area of the state of Táchira, Venezuela. In a second stage, the size was calculated according to the formula for the selected sampling class, based on the socio-economic data of heads of household provided by the educational institutions, as a conglomerate, where the study was applied and with a confidence level of 95%, resulting in a sample size of 808 heads of household where some have minors who attend educational centres and are beneficiaries of official food programmes. The institutions surveyed were the Unidad Educativa General Carlos Soublette, in the town of San Josecito, Torbes municipality, and the Liceo Nacional Francisco Tamayo and the Unidad Educativa Rufino Blanco, in the town of El Piñal, Fernández Feo municipality, Táchira state. The information consent form was used, which was read to the heads of household and they agreed to participate in the study, and the structured survey was applied to them. The primary data collection date was from 3 to 21 May 2021. To use these data, SPSS software in any of its versions is required.