The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling a survey that collects data on hunger. Missouri groups that use the data say it’s important for understanding food insecurity.

The department has collected the data for about 30 years. In a move first reported by the Wall Street Journal , the Trump Administration said it's cancelling the questionnaire, an annual supplement to the U.S. Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey.

The survey asks questions such as how often people couldn’t afford food that year or if they lost weight due to a lack of food. It specifically measured food insecurity, which the USDA calls a “household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” Hunger, an individual physiological condition, may result from food

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