Table 2.
Association between eating habits and income during the pandemic in Brazilian families with children aged 0–12 years (n = 1003).
| Income | Food intake pattern |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating cheaper foods | Eating less than before | Eating more than before | No change in food consumption | p-value* | |
| N (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Not impacted | 20 (12.6) | 0 (0.0) | 129 (29.7) | 111 (28.8) | <0.001 |
| Slightly reduced | 75 (47.2) | 13 (52.0) | 233 (53.7) | 210 (54.5) | |
| Drastically reduced | 55 (34.6) | 8 (32.0) | 66 (15.2) | 58 (15.0) | |
| Total loss | 6 (3.8) | 4 (16.0) | 3 (0.7) | 2 (0.5) | |
| Increased | 3 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.7) | 4 (1.0) | |
| Total | 159 | 25 | 434 | 385 | |
Fisher's exact test.