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Published in final edited form as: J Acad Nutr Diet. 2016 Sep 7;117(1):48–57. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2016.07.010

Table 6. Bivariate association between informal food sources of food, shopping strategies, and ability to manage resources and household food security status in low income families in two urban Rhode Island communities (N=164)^a^,^b.

	Informal Sources M (SE)				Shopping Strategies M (SE)	Perceived inability to budget M (SE)

	Borrow	Pool Resources	Exchange/trade	Store credit
FS	1.09^a (0.07)	1.82^a (0.11)	1.23^a (0.08)	1.17^a (0.07)	5.53^a (0.20)	6.90^a (0.27)
LFS	1.42^b (0.09)	1.75^a (0.15)	1.38^a (0.11)	1.188^a (0.10)	6.02^a ^b (0.28)	9.23^b (0.27)
VLFS	1.73^c (0.13)	2.59^b (0.23)	2.00^b (0.17)	1.64^b (0.15)	6.64^b (0.41)	10.09^b (0.55)

F-value	11.09^***	5.42^**	8.75^***	4.36^**	3.28^*	20.10^***

Abbreviation: FS, Food secure; LFS, Low food security; VLFS, Very low food security.

Means with different superscripts are significantly different from each other at the level of significance using the following notation:

p<.05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001

General Linear Model ANOVA Differences in means tested using Duncan test.

Table 6. Bivariate association between informal food sources of food, shopping strategies, and ability to manage resources and household food security status in low income families in two urban Rhode Island communities (N=164)a,b.