Which type of household is more likely to be food insecure?
The prevalence of food insecurity was higher among households with certain characteristics,including:
those with incomes in the lowest (48.3%) and lower middle (29.1%) categories of household income adequacy, compared with those in the middle (13.6%), upper middle (5.2%) and
highest (1.3%) categories of household income adequacy,
those relying on social assistance (59.7%) or worker's compensation/employment insurance (29.0%) as their main source of household income, compared with those with salary/wages
(7.3%) and those with pensions/seniors' benefits (4.9%) as their main source of income,
off-reserve Aboriginal households (33.3%), compared with non-Aboriginal households (8.8%),
those who do not own their dwelling (20.5%), compared with those who do own their dwelling (3.9%), and those with children (10.4%), compared with those without children (8.6%).
Among households with children, the prevalence of food insecurity was higher among:
those led by a lone parent (22.5%), especially a female lone parent (24.9%),compared with households led by a couple (7.6%)
those with three or more children (15.0%), compared with those with one or two children (9.6%), and those with at least one child under the age of 6 years (13.0%), compared with those without a child under 6 years of age (8.8%).
Among households without children, the prevalence of food insecurity was higher among
unattached individuals (13.7%), compared with couple households (3.5%).
-Information taken from Health Canada's Income-Related Food Security in Canada
http://foodsecurity.nexialist.org/files/income_food_sec-sec_alim_e.pdf
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