Table 3.
Food consumption according to household type
| Total | Food Security Household | Food Marginal Household | Food Insecurity Household | F/χ2 | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Means/n | SD/% | Means/n | SD/% | Means/n | SD/% | Means/n | SD/% | |||
| Frequency of food purchases per week | 1.84 | 1.51 | 1.85ab | 1.50 | 1.87b | 1.54 | 1.60a | 1.42 | 3.211 | .040 |
| Average amount spent on food per purchases (in KRW)a | 63,476.06 | 42215.37 | 64,231.12 | 42700.52 | 63221.89 | 42271.02 | 59,092.92 | 37732.33 | 1.525 | .218 |
| Food expenditure in 2022 vs. 2021 | 18.121 | .001 | ||||||||
| Decrease | 73 | 2.2 | 34 | 1.9 | 34 | 2.5 | 5 | 2.2 | ||
| No change | 1987 | 59.8 | 1000 | 56.8 | 841 | 63.0 | 146 | 64.6 | ||
| Increase | 1261 | 37.9 | 727 | 41.3 | 459 | 34.4 | 75 | 33.1 | ||
Notes: a1 USD = 1,303.43 KRW (as of July 10, 2023). a, b Significant difference in post-hoc Scheffé test at alpha = 0.05