Table 1.

Food insecurity and receipt of social assistance, by main source of income and source of social assistance—households, weighted (%), 2016.

Food-Secure:	Yes		No 1
Receipt of Social Assistance Benefits:	No	Yes	No	Yes
Main Source of Income 2
Employee Income	85.7	43.2	89.4	23.8 ***
Own Business Income	4.8	3.5	6.8	0.4 ***
Government Pensions & Allowances	0.0	41.3	0.0	74.8 ***
Other Income	9.5	12.1	3.8	1.0 ***
Main Source of Social Assistance Payments 3
No Social Assistance	100	n.a.	100	n.a.
Age Pension	n.a.	36.6	n.a.	9.4 ***
Disability and Carer Payments	n.a.	12.2	n.a.	38.3 ***
Family Support Payments	n.a.	24.1	n.a.	19.7
Unemployment and Student Allowances	n.a.	9.7	n.a.	28.7 ***
Other Government Pensions/Allowances	n.a.	17.4	n.a.	4.0 ***
Unweighted n 4	3855	5884	38	263
Weighted % 5	43.5	53.7	0.5	2.3

¹ Going without meals due to financial constraints in the previous 12 months; ² Household main source of income in the previous 12 months; ³ Source of social assistance benefits at the household level; n.a. not applicable for households not in receipt of social assistance payments; ⁴ number of raw observations; ⁵ percentages weighted using survey weights to account for non-response. *** p < 0.001 for test of proportions. Test of proportions conducted between each social assistance benefit groups. That is, assistance benefit recipients (food-secure) compared with assistance benefit recipients (food-insecure) and for non-assistance benefits also (insignificant differences).