Table 3.
Prevalence of household food consumption characteristics, September 2012 and May 2013, Iqaluit, Canada
| Characteristics | Households with children | Households without children | Presence of children | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | September 2012 | May 2013 | P value* | All | September 2012 | May 2013 | P value* | P value† | |
| Frequency of food consumptiona | |||||||||
| Fruit and vegetablesb | |||||||||
| More than half of the meals | 0.35 | 0.73 | 0.002 | ||||||
| % | 79.0 | 80.8 | 77.3 | 70.4 | 69.8 | 71.2 | |||
| 95% CI | 75.3, 82.6 | 75.7, 85.9 | 72.2, 82.5 | 66.4, 74.5 | 64.1, 75.4 | 65.4, 77.0 | |||
| Local foodsc | |||||||||
| More than half of the meals | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.20 | ||||||
| % | 11.1 | 13.1 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 10.8 | 6.3 | |||
| 95% CI | 8.3, 13.9 | 8.7, 17.5 | 5.8, 12.9 | 6.2, 11.2 | 7.0, 14.6 | 3.2, 9.4 | |||
| Retail foodsd | |||||||||
| More than half of the meals | 0.62 | 0.19 | <0.001 | ||||||
| % | 71.4 | 72.5 | 70.4 | 54.9 | 52.1 | 58.0 | |||
| 95% CI | 67.4, 75.4 | 66.7, 78.3 | 64.8, 76.0 | 50.5, 59.3 | 46.0, 58.2 | 51.7, 64.3 | |||
| Method of food preparatione | |||||||||
| Cooked | 0.28 | 0.41 | 0.24 | ||||||
| % | 56.6 | 59.2 | 54.3 | 60.3 | 58.5 | 62.2 | |||
| 95% CI | 52.2, 61.0 | 52.8, 65.6 | 48.2, 60.4 | 56.0, 64.6 | 52.5, 64.6 | 56.0, 68.4 | |||
| Raw | 0.73 | 0.48 | 0.17 | ||||||
| % | 52.7 | 53.5 | 52.0 | 48.3 | 49.8 | 46.6 | |||
| 95% CI | 48.2, 57.1 | 47.0, 60.0 | 45.8, 58.1 | 43.9, 52.7 | 43.7, 55.9 | 40.3, 53.0 | |||
| Fermented | 0.98 | 0.49 | 0.81 | ||||||
| % | 6.6 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 5.5 | |||
| 95% CI | 4.4, 8.8 | 3.3, 9.8 | 3.6, 9.7 | 4.1, 8.4 | 3.8, 10.0 | 2.6, 8.4 | |||
| Dried | 0.003 | 0.09 | 0.42 | ||||||
| % | 43.8 | 50.9 | 37.5 | 41.2 | 44.8 | 37.4 | |||
| 95% CI | 39.4, 48.2 | 44.4, 57.4 | 31.5, 43.5 | 36.9, 45.6 | 38.7, 50.9 | 31.2, 43.6 | |||
| Frozen | 0.98 | 0.42 | 0.20 | ||||||
| % | 61.8 | 61.8 | 61.7 | 57.7 | 59.5 | 55.9 | |||
| 95% CI | 57.4, 66.1 | 55.5, 68.2 | 55.7–67.7 | 53.4, 62.1 | 53.5, 65.5 | 49.5, 62.2 | |||
* P value determined using χ2, H0: Prevalence of characteristic is the same in September 2012 and May 2013
† P value determined using χ2, H0: Prevalence of characteristic is the same in households with and without children
aParticipants reported the number of meals that included these foods in the past month. For purpose of analyses, categories were combined into ‘Less than half of the meals’ (‘None’ to ‘Half of the meals’) and ‘More than half of the meals’ (‘More than half of the meals’ to ‘All meals’)
bFruit and vegetables include fruit and vegetables coming from the land and retail store
cLocal foods include freshly caught fish and meat from the land
dRetail foods include fish from the retail store, meat from the retail store, and pre-packaged, processed, or ready-to-eat food from the retail store
eMethod of preparation for fish and meat, except for ‘cooked’ which includes only fish because of not enough observations for cooked meat. Participants reported consumption within the 2 weeks (yes/no)