so while this approach could provide accurate information about the prevalence of children being exposed to household food insecurity and even about those who we expect are at risk from household conditions it would be less helpful for quantifying the number of children with experiences of food insecurity the first approach relies only on data about household food security and would provide little specificity about type or degree of child risk it is possible that a combination of household food security and other economic contextual or health indicators could provide a more accurate prediction of which children are at risk and for what as with the first approach preliminary research would be necessary to empirically determine the profile of factors that predict different child food insecurity experiences based on either a definitive direct measurement of child food insecurity eg interviews with children or a validated set of child items implemented in a diverse set of countries