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. 2024 Apr 22;23:80. doi: 10.1186/s12939-024-02135-1

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