Objective
1. Produce descriptive statistics on key sociodemographic
and economic variables, including household food security, in a
representative sample of Puerto Rico households
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What
is the prevalence of low and very low food security among
households with and without children in Puerto Rico?
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What
is the prevalence of low and very low food security among adults
in households with and without children in Puerto Rico?
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What
is the prevalence of low and very low food security among
children in Puerto Rico?
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What
are the sociodemographic characteristics and geospatial
locations of these households in Puerto Rico?
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Objective
2. Produce descriptive statistics on key sociodemographic
and economic variables, including household low food security, in
multiple representative subsamples in Puerto Rico
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What
is the prevalence of low and very low food security among the
following subsamples in Puerto Rico? NAP participating
households and low-income nonparticipant households, households
with and without one or more adults aged 60 or older, households
with and without one or more persons with a disability.
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What
are the sociodemographic characteristics of households in each
subsample in Puerto Rico?
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Objective
3. Produce descriptive statistics for each subsample in
Puerto Rico on key social, geospatial, and other policy-relevant
elements of health and well-being associated with household food
security
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What
is the prevalence of each of these characteristics in each
subsample?
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Is
there a statistically significant difference in these
characteristics between the full Puerto Rico sample and the
subsamples?
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Is
there a statistically significant difference in these
characteristics between each subsample for key sociodemographic
and economic variables?
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Objective
4. Characterize the social context and, in particular, the life
course of individuals as they define their experiences with low
food security through in-depth interviews with individuals within
the NAP participant and low-income nonparticipant subgroups
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How
do individuals adapt to difficult life experiences, particularly
low household food security? (Additional difficult life
experiences will vary by respondent but may include natural
disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, unemployment, and
unstable housing.)
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What
transitions and turning points in the life course of an
individual shape their experiences of difficult life events,
particularly low household food security? (What is the
importance of Hurricanes Maria and Irma and other catastrophic
life experiences, such as the earthquakes of 2019–2020 and
the coronavirus pandemic?)
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What
capabilities, demands, and meanings are associated with the
understanding of and adaptation to each individual to difficult
life events, particularly low household food security?
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How
do individuals identify the importance of neighborhood and
community in their understanding of and adaptation to difficult
life experiences, particularly low household food security?
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How
do individuals identify the importance of these experiences and
transitions in their decisions to participate or not participate
in NAP?
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Are
there experiences or characteristics that shape an individual’s
resilience or vulnerability to low food security?
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Are
there insights to be gained about the dynamics of household food
security and hunger coping strategies among intergenerational
households?
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What
are the key sociodemographic and economic characteristics for
each interviewee?
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Objective
5. Develop a detailed concept/problem map of the systemic factors
that shape the implementation of the NAP program, particularly as
a disaster relief tool
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What
are the research gaps in the knowledge of how the NAP program
protects against low food security among NAP participants,
especially during natural disasters?
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What
are the policies that influence the delivery and effectiveness
of the NAP program, especially during natural disasters?
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