Food security According to the UN, food security means that people have physical and economic access to basic food. The questions were designed to obtain information and opinions on access to food in terms of quantity and quality through a set of six questions.“ In the last 12 months did you and your household ever cut the size of your meals, or skip meals, because you had not enough money to buy food?”,“In the last 12 months, were you and your family worried that food would run out before getting money to buy again?”,“In the last 12 months, could your family afford to buy the kinds of food you wanted to have?”,“In the next 12 months, are you and your family less or more worried about fulfilling your food needs?”,“Do you think the controls of food safety by the sta te institutions are adequate?”, Do you think the food products in Albania's markets are safe and harmless to health?”. In terms of food access, a majority of 63.5% of respondents say that they have not been forced to reduce the amount of food intake due to lack of economic or physical access. For one-third of respondents, such access has been a challenge and 13.8% say that they have had to reduce their food intake during the last year. 11.9% have had to do so for several months and another 10.6% for one or two months. Differences in terms of access are observed based on education level. Of those respondents who have had a university education, 20.3% say that they faced challenges in ensuring food access for their household, while 44.3% of those with no university education have faced such challenges. Smaller differences are observed among the age groups. 30.7% of those 50 years and older faced with such challenges against 21.5% of those aged 18 to 49 years. In the last 12 months did you or your household ever cut the size of your meals, or skip meals because you did not have enough money to buy food? 63.5 13.8 11.9 10.6 Yes, every month Yes, some months Yes, only 1 or 2 No months 0.2 Don’t know Graph 57. Household food access during the last year 60