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The Daily. Friday, July 21, 2000
Data are now available from the Food Insecurity Supplementary Survey, conducted as part of the household component of the 1998/99 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) on behalf of Human Resources Development Canada.
The food insecurity supplement surveyed NPHS respondents who were deemed to be "food insecure." To be considered food insecure, individuals reported that they, or someone in their household, had had at least one of the following three concerns in the previous 12 months: they worried that there would not be enough to eat because of a lack of money; they did not have enough food to eat because of a lack of money; or they were not eating the quality or variety of foods they wanted to because of a lack of money.
The supplement surveyed about 1,300 people on the difficulties they had shopping for food, on actions they took to stretch their food money, on feeding their children and on expenditures for housing.
To order custom tabulations, contact Client Custom Services (613-951-1746; fax: 613-951-0792; hd-ds@statcan.gc.ca), Health Statistics Division.
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Mario Bédard (613-951-8933; fax: 613-951-4198; mario.bedard@statcan.gc.ca), Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada or Satya Brink (819-953-6622; fax: 819-953-8868; satya.brink@spg.org), Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada.