Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning that coping strategies might also vary within a population. Thus, whether people actually agree on FI coping behaviors is an open question. This article describes methods used to test whether there was a culturally agreed on set of coping behaviors around FI in rural Brazilian majority-female heads of household, and to detect patterned subgroup variation in that agreement. We used cultural consensus and residual agreement analyses on freelist and rating exercise data. This process could be applied as a first step in developing experience-based measures of FI sensitive to intragroup variation, or to identify key variables to guide qualitative analyses.

经常通过基于经验的措施来评估粮食不安全（FI），这些措施可以解决人们采用的应对策略的数量和范围。应对指数是有限的，因为从方法上讲，它们假定人们统一地采用应对策略。人种学研究表明，亚组对FI的体验大不相同，这意味着应对策略在人群中也可能有所不同。因此，人们是否真的同意FI应对行为是一个悬而未决的问题。本文介绍了一些方法，这些方法用于测试在巴西农村多数女性户主中，关于FI周围的应对行为是否在文化上达成一致，并用于检测该协议中有模式的亚组变异。我们在自由列表和评级练习数据上使用了文化共识和残差协议分析。