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Coping Strategies Index

The Coping Strategies Index (CSI) is a behaviour-based indicator of household food insecurity that counts and weights the consumption-related coping strategies households adopt when they cannot access enough food. Developed by Daniel Maxwell in the 1990s and standardised in the CARE/WFP field manual, it asks how frequently a household resorted to behaviours such as eating less-preferred foods, borrowing food, reducing portion sizes, restricting adult consumption, or skipping meals, and combines frequency with severity into a single score that is quick to collect and well suited to monitoring and early warning.

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Coping Strategies Index (CSI)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / development-studies
  • Maxwell, D. G. (1996). Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of 'coping strategies'. Food Policy, 21(3), 291–303. · DOI 10.1016/0306-9192(96)00005-X
  • Maxwell, D., & Caldwell, R. (2008). The Coping Strategies Index: Field Methods Manual (2nd ed.). Atlanta / Rome: CARE and World Food Programme. · URL
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