Table 3.
Patterns of food source destinations most often used for household food acquisition among low-income African-American families (n 298) in Baltimore City, MD, USA, June 2013–June 2014
| Food source destinations | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor 1* | Factor 2* | Factor 3* | Factor 4* | Factor 5* | Factor 6* | Factor 7* | ||||||||
| Local carry-out (0·85) | Supermarket or grocery store (0·77) | Street food vendor (0·80) | Sit-down restaurant, bar or pubs (0·64) | Public market (0·75) | Local or urban farm stand (−0·74) | Arabber or mobile produce cart (0·63) | ||||||||
| Chain fast-food restaurant (0·74) | Wholesale food store (0·62) | Family and friends (0·70) | Virtual Supermarket program (0·63) | Specialty store (0·74) | Food pantry (−0·66) | |||||||||
| Local corner store (0·69) | ||||||||||||||
| Variance (%)† | 11·06 | 9·43 | 9·06 | 8·06 | 7·88 | 6·63 | 6·50 | |||||||
| Households | Mean (sd)‡,§ | |||||||||||||
| Food secure (n 174) | −0·01 | 1·04 | 0·03 | 1·03 | 0·04 | 1·20 | 0·03 | 1·00 | −0·01 | 1·10 | 0·04 | 0·79 | −0·09 | 0·94 |
| Food insecure without hunger (n 87) | −0·00 | 0·99 | −0·11 | 0·88 | −0·03 | 0·63 | −0·19 | 0·80 | 0·03 | 0·90 | −0·10 | 1·39 | 0·07 | 0·69 |
| Food insecure with hunger (n 37) | 0·05 | 0·87 | 0·01 | 0·90 | −0·13 | 0·64 | 0·67 | 1·31 | −0·03 | 0·73 | 0·03 | 0·85 | 0·29 | 1·64 |
*
Factors were extracted by principal component analysis adopting the eigenvalues >1·0 criterion. Patterns extracted were subjected to Varimax rotation with Kaiser normalization. Food sources with absolute factor loadings >0·6 (given in parentheses) were maintained in the pattern.
†
Percentage of total variance explained by each factor retained. Cumulative explained variance of the seven obtained factors: 58·61 %.
‡
No significant differences were found between groups (P<0·05).
§
One-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc test to compare the groups.