. 2020 May 5;24(5):1021–1033. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019004889

Table 1.

Variables explored as potential predictors of food insecurity among First Nations respondents^*

	Predictor	Description	Type
Individual level	Sex	Whether the respondent of the household was female or male	Categorical
	Age group	Age of the respondent categorised as 19–30, 31–50, 51–70, 71+	Categorical
	Years of education	Number of years of education of the respondent	Continuous
Household level	Income source^†	Main source of income categorised as workers’ compensation/employment insurance; wages; social assistance; pension; other	Categorical
	Region	Province where the respondent resides, categorised as British Columbia (BC), Manitoba (MB), Ontario (ON), Alberta (AB)	Categorical
	Presence of children in the household	Whether the respondent indicated yes or no to children being present in the household	Categorical
	Total people in the household	Number of people in the household	Continuous
	Climate^‡	Whether climate change has impacted the availability of traditional food in the household	Categorical
	Contaminants^§	Whether environmental contaminants (pollution, pesticides, industrial effluents) prevented the household from using more traditional food	Categorical
Community level^‖	Community road access	Whether the community is accessible year-round, by plane only or by winter road	Categorical
	Food basket costs	Cost and affordability of healthy eating within each community	Continuous
	Distance to service centre (km)	Distance to service centre from each community	Continuous

FNFNES, First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study; SHL, social, health and lifestyle.

FNFNES. Data are unweighted.

^†

Measure of income as captured by the SHL questionnaire in FNFNES was the main source of information. The questionnaire does not capture annual wages and salaries among household respondents.

^‡

Based on question 9a and 9b of the SHL questionnaire in FNFNES.

^§

This variable was obtained from question 8b of the SHL questionnaire in FNFNES.

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Food basket costs were measured based on sixty-seven basic food items using Health Canada’s 2008 National Nutritious Food Basket Tool. Distance to service centre was measured from road access to a service centre (access to banks, suppliers and government services)^(47–49,57).