Table 5.
Associations of food security items with monthly household income. Figures are frequencies (row percent) except where indicated.
| Item (frequency) | Affirmatives (%) with monthly income | Slope index of income-related inequality | ||
| ≤US$133 | >US$1067 | Odds ratio (95% CI)a | P value | |
| Food secure (327) | 37 (11) | 87 (27) | - | |
| Food insecure (127) | 35 (28) | 5 (4) | 8.08 (2.91 to 22.5) | <0.001 |
| 3 Balanced meal (153) | 34 (22) | 15 (10) | 3.77 (1.40 to 10.2) | 0.009 |
| 2 Food last (103) | 29 (28) | 5 (5) | 5.35 (1.80 to 15.9) | 0.003 |
| 5 Skip meals (91) | 29 (32) | 1 (1) | 17.1 (5.15 to 56.7) | <0.001 |
| 7 Eat less (71) | 24 (34) | 0 (0) | 19.9 (4.99 to 79.4) | <0.001 |
| 8 How often (68) | 25 (37) | 1 (1) | 14.3 (3.49 to 58.5) | <0.001 |
| 10 Hungry (29) | 10 (34) | 0 (0) | 20.8 (2.67 to 162.5) | 0.004 |
a relative odds of affirmative response for those at the bottom compared with those at the top of the income scale, adjusted for age, gender, ethnic group and clustering by household