Table 1:
Sociodemographic and maternal health characteristics of the study sample, by household food insecurity status (based on Canadian Community Health Surveys, 2005–2014; rounded n = 10 450)*
| Characteristic | Food security status; % of respondents† | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any status | Secure | Marginally insecure | Moderately insecure | Severely insecure | |
| Weighted prevalence | 100 | 83.0 | 5.5 | 8.6 | 2.9 |
| Age, yr, mean ± SEM | 30.5 ± 0.2 | 30.8 ± 0.1 | 29.5 ± 0.5 | 28.8 ± 0.7 | 28.9 ± 1.4 |
| Education | |||||
| Postsecondary graduation | 71.5 | 75.9 | 58.1 | 48.6 | 40.2 |
| Less than postsecondary graduation | 28.5 | 24.1 | 41.9 | 51.4 | 59.8 |
| Partnership status | |||||
| Married or common-law | 88.8 | 92.3 | 78.7 | 72.5 | 56.4 |
| Single, divorced, separated, widowed | 11.2 | 7.7 | 21.3 | 27.5 | 43.6 |
| Immigrant status‡ | |||||
| Non-immigrant | 73.3 | 74.2 | 69.3 | 67.4 | 72.6 |
| Immigrant | 26.7 | 25.8 | 30.7 | 32.6 | 27.4 |
| No. of children < 18 yr, mean ± SEM | 1.7 ± 0.03 | 1.7 ± 0.04 | 1.9 ± 0.07 | 2.0 ± 0.09 | 2.0 ± 0.08 |
| Income (adjusted for household size),§ $, mean ± SEM | 44 050 ± 966 | 48 480 ± 800 | 28 000 ± 1775 | 20 600 ± 1802 | 17 080 ± 1629 |
| Aboriginal identity | |||||
| No | 95.3 | 96.4 | 92.2 | 89.4 | 85.7 |
| Yes | 4.8 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 10.6 | 14.3 |
| Mood disorder | |||||
| No | 93.3 | 95.3 | 88.5 | 83.3 | 75.7 |
| Yes | 6.7 | 4.7 | 11.5 | 16.7 | 24.3 |
| Diabetes mellitus | |||||
| No | 98.6 | 98.9 | 96.2 | 98.2 | 97.1 |
| Yes | 1.4 | 1.1 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 2.9 |
Note: SEM = standard error of the mean.
*
In keeping with Statistics Canada’s disclosure policies for analyses of survey microdata, only weighted prevalence and parameter estimates are reported in this table.
†
Except where indicated otherwise.
‡
Immigrant status defined by Canadian citizenship at birth.
§
Before-tax household income converted to 2014 constant dollars using the Consumer Price Index and adjusted for family size by dividing by the square root of household size.