Below, we use the food grain intake data by income deciles from four rounds of Surveys (HIES), 1985, 1988, 1992 and 2000 as our basis for discussing household-level food security (Table 7). Per-capita consumption of all cereals shows a declining trend between 1992 and 2000: from 185 to 170 kgs.18 Per-capita consumption of rice however does not show any trend one way or the other. Since, per-capita incomes during the same time grew at a rate of 3% and the inequality in income has shrunk, the fall in average food grain consumption could possibly be due to other changes such as dietary preferences. The distribution of rice intake has indeed improved between 1992 and 2000. The bottom 40% consumers raised their intake while the top 20% reduced it. The Gini coefficient of cereals fell from 0.08 in 1992 to 0.04 in 2000.