Table 2.

Prevalence of demographic characteristics, body weight and food insecurity among participants

Characteristic	Prevalence,* % (95% CI)
Demographics
Public housing	69.7 (64.8–74.6)
Income support — any household member	42.7 (37.5–47.9)
Home in need of major repairs	37.0 (31.7–42.3)
No. of people in home	5.9 (5.7–6.1)
Crowding†	53.9 (48.6–59.3)
Children to adults, 19–64 y in home (ratio)	1.6 (1.5–1.7)
Weekly cost for groceries, Can$	428.5 (399.2–457.7)
Consumed traditional food in the past day	44.2 (38.9–49.6)
Daily contact with extended family	69.7 (64.7–74.7)
Received traditional food from sharing networks in the past year	75.6 (71.0–80.1)
Distributed traditional food	81.2 (76.8–85.5)
Body weight
Overweight	39.3 (33.9–44.7)
Obese	28.0 (23.1–33.0)
Overall household food security‡
Food secure	30.4 (25.4–35.4)
Food insecure	69.6 (64.7–74.6)
Moderately	35.3 (30.1–40.5)
Severely	34.4 (29.2–39.5)
Child food security
Food secure	43.9 (38.7–49.0)
Food insecure	56.1 (51.0–61.3)
Moderately	31.0 (26.1–35.9)
Severely	25.1 (20.4–29.9)

Note: CI = confidence interval.

^*Data were weighted to the total number of Inuit children aged three to five years in each community.

^†Defined as more than one person per room where rooms are defined as bedrooms, kitchen or living room.

^‡Determined by combining data for adult-specific food security (data not shown) and data for child-specific food security.