Table A3.
Access to Emergency Funds (%) by Food Insecurity and Receipt of Social Assistance, Households 2015/2016.
| Food Insecure | Main Source of Household Social Assistance Benefits in Cash | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receives Social Assistance Benefits: | No | Yes | None | Age | Disability and | Family Support | Unemployment and | Other Pensions | ||
| No | Yes | No | Yes | Pension | Carer Payments | Payments | Student Allowances | and Allowances | ||
| Access to Emergency Funds | ||||||||||
| Could not raise $2000 within a week | 6.3 | 16.1 | 32.5 | 73.2 | 6.6 | 11.3 | 34.7 | 21.5 | 33.9 | 6.7 |
| Source(s) of Emergency Funds | ||||||||||
| Own Savings | 77.9 | 65.1 | 19 | 10.4 | 77.3 | 74.5 | 45.4 | 51.9 | 41.9 | 78.6 |
| Loan from a Bank, Building Society | 14.3 | 9.9 | 8.9 | <1 | 14.3 | 5.8 | 9.3 | 13.3 | 9 | 12.4 |
| Loan from a Finance Company | 4.3 | 1.8 | 0 | 1.1 | 4.2 | <1 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
| Loan on Credit Card | 19.5 | 11.8 | 25.1 | 2.2 | 19.6 | 8.1 | 9.5 | 15.9 | 11.2 | 13.4 |
| Loan from Family or Friends | 19.4 | 15.9 | 26.7 | 19.7 | 19.5 | 8.5 | 15.3 | 25.3 | 20.5 | 16.6 |
| Loan from Welfare or Community Organisation | <1 | <1 | <1 | <1 | <1 | <1 | 2.4 | 1 | <1 | <1 |
| Sell Something | 9.1 | 4.9 | 6.7 | 4.3 | 9.1 | 1.7 | 3.8 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 6.7 |
| Other Sources | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.1 | <1 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 3.1 |
| Unweighted (n) | 3855 | 5884 | 38 | 263 | 3894 | 2680 | 836 | 1177 | 528 | 926 |
| Weighted (%) | 43.5 | 53.7 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 44.0 | 19.9 | 7.4 | 13.4 | 5.9 | 9.5 |