Table II.
Top 10 traditional foods reported in the past year by sex, age and EARTH Study region (n=3830).
| Total | Sex | Age | Region | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | Men n (%) |
Women n (%) |
18–34 n (%) |
35–54 n (%) |
55+ n (%) |
South-central n (%) |
South-east n (%) |
South-west n (%) |
|
| Fish† | 3071 (80.2) | 1201 (79.7) | 1870 (80.5) | 1086 (75.3) | 1436 (83.0) | 549 (83.6) | 1008 (72.2) | 784 (88.3) | 1279 (82.8) |
| Moose | 1952 (51.0) | 856 (56.8) | 1096 (47.2) | 774 (53.6) | 864 (49.9) | 314 (47.8) | 550 (39.4) | 111 (12.5) | 1291 (83.6) |
| Agutaq | 1619 (42.3) | 699 (46.4) | 920 (38.0) | 656 (45.5) | 684 (39.5) | 279 (42.5) | 328 (23.5) | 40 (4.5) | 1251 (81.0) |
| Gathered berries | 1482 (38.7) | 489 (32.4) | 993 (42.7) | 545 (37.8) | 688 (39.8) | 249 (37.9) | 447 (32.0) | 347 (39.1) | 688 (44.5) |
| Herring eggs | 1481 (38.7) | 548 (36.4) | 933 (40.2) | 457 (31.7) | 707 (40.9) | 317 (48.2) | 306 (21.9) | 631 (71.1) | 544 (35.2) |
| Shellfish (crab, shrimp, clams, etc.) | 1386 (36.2) | 473 (31.4) | 913 (39.3) | 452 (31.3) | 680 (39.3) | 254 (38.7) | 545 (39.0) | 528 (59.5) | 313 (20.3) |
| Caribou | 1369 (35.7) | 588 (39.0) | 781 (33.6) | 529 (36.7) | 610 (35.3) | 230 (35.0) | 427 (30.6) | 49 (5.5) | 893 (57.8) |
| Seal oil | 1277 (33.3) | 512 (34.0) | 765 (32.9) | 376 (26.1) | 634 (36.6) | 267 (40.6) | 265 (19.0) | 192 (21.6) | 820 (53.1) |
| Seal or walrus | 1131 (29.5) | 520 (34.5) | 611 (26.3) | 376 (26.1) | 520 (30.1) | 235 (35.8) | 199 (14.2) | 152 (17.1) | 780 (50.5) |
| Wild birds | 1094 (28.6) | 510 (33.8) | 584 (25.1) | 420 (29.1) | 482 (27.9) | 192 (29.2) | 189 (13.5) | 49 (5.5) | 856 (55.4) |
| Consumption of multiple traditional foods | |||||||||
| ≥ 1 Foods | 3543 (92.5) | 1396 (92.6) | 2147 (92.4) | 1311 (90.9) | 1613 (93.2) | 619 (94.2) | 1193 (85.4) | 836 (94.1) | 1514 (98.0) |
| ≥ 7 Foods | 2060 (53.8) | 825 (54.7) | 1235 (53.2) | 677 (46.9) | 975 (56.4) | 408 (62.1) | 516 (36.9) | 525 (59.1) | 1019 (66.0) |
| ≥ 10 Foods | 1274 (33.3) | 523 (34.7) | 751 (32.3) | 382 (26.5) | 623 (36.0) | 269 (40.9) | 294 (21.0) | 280 (31.5) | 700 (45.3) |
†
Fish includes smoked or dried fish (any kind), salmon/hooligan/herring, other fish like halibut or char, canned or jarred salmon, and fish soup.
All differences between the sexes, age groups and regions with traditional foods were significant (p<0.01). The only non-significant associations were between sex and reported fish and seal oil consumption; and age and reported berries, herring eggs, caribou and wild bird consumption.