Table 7.
Distribution of principle food sources reported by indigenous households, by region, First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition, Brazil, 2008-2009
| Characteristics studied | All regions |
Region |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | Central-West | Northeast | South/Southeast | ||
| |
n = 5273 |
n = 1832 |
n = 1083 |
n = 1463 |
n = 895 |
| Cultivation and/or raising animals |
83.2% |
89.4% |
87.4% |
71.7% |
84.6% |
| |
CI:82.2-84.2 |
CI:87.9-90.8 |
CI:85.4-89.3 |
CI:69.4-74.0 |
CI:82.2-87.0 |
| Hunting or fishing |
64.8% |
94.0% |
45.0% |
52.9% |
48.3% |
| |
CI:63.5-66.0 |
CI:92.9-95.1 |
CI:42.0-47.9 |
CI:50.3-55.5 |
CI:45.0-51.5 |
| Collecting |
69.0% |
85.4% |
62.2% |
60.0% |
58.2% |
| |
CI:67.7-70.2 |
CI:83.8-87.0 |
CI:59.3-65.1 |
CI:57.5-62.5 |
CI:55.0-61.4 |
| Purchase |
96.4% |
91.8% |
97.9% |
99.2% |
99.1% |
| |
CI:95.8-96.9 |
CI:90.6-93.1 |
CI:97.0-98.7 |
CI:98.8-99.7 |
CI:98.5-99.7 |
| Basic food baskets |
41.1% |
3.5% |
88.6% |
30.6% |
77.8% |
| |
CI:39.8-42.4 |
CI:2.6-4.3 |
CI:86.7-90.5 |
CI:28.3-33.0 |
CI:75.0-80.5 |
| Other donations (churches, NGOs and others) |
13.5% |
8.1% |
16.3% |
17.0% |
15.8% |
| CI:12.6-14.5 | CI:6.8-9.3 | CI:14.1-18.5 | CI:15.0-18.9 | CI:13.4-18.1 | |
CI: 95% confidence interval.