How many Canadian households are food insecure?
1 million households (9.2%) were food insecure at some point in the previous year as a result of financial challenges they faced in accessing adequate food. In these households, at least one adult or child member experienced multiple conditions characteristic of food insecurity.
Overall, 2.7 million Canadians, or 8.8% of the population, lived in food insecure households in 2004.
Across the country, rates of household food insecurity ranged from 8.1% in Saskatchewan to 14.6% in Nova Scotia.
Among households with children, 5.2% experienced food insecurity at the child level-that is, at least one child in each of these households experienced food insecurity in the previous year. More than 700,000 children lived in households in which either adults or children experienced food insecurity at some time in 2004, including 366,200 who lived in households in which one or more of the children were food insecure.
Food insecurity was generally more prevalent among adults (9.0%) than among children (5.2%) in the household-especially when the experience of food insecurity was severe (adults 2.9%, children 0.4%).
-Information taken from Health Canada's Income-Related Food Security in Canada
http://foodsecurity.nexialist.org/files/income_food_sec-sec_alim_e.pdf
