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Abstract
We investigate the food security situation of Slovak households in terms of both access to food and quality of the diet
consumed by estimating food demand system and diet diversity demand models using household budget survey data
over the period 2004-2010. In most samples demand for meat and fish and fruits and vegetables is expenditure and
own-price elastic. On average all five food groups investigated are found to be normal goods. Rural and low-income
households appear more expenditure and price sensitive compared to the urban and high-income ones. Results from
quantile regressions indicate that income has a positive while uncertainty has a negatively effect on the diversity of the
diet as the effects are stronger in more vulnerable, low income and rural consumer subsamples. Overall the food
security situation in Slovakia appears to have improved over time, since the country’s EU accession.