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Level of household food insecurity, by sex, household population, Canada and provinces
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| 1. | Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, Nutrition, 2004 | ||
| 2. | The model for household food security status levels is adopted from the United States model of food security status levels published by the United States Department of Agriculture in 2000. Food insecurity is based on a set of 18 questions and indicates whether households both with and without children were able to afford the food they needed in the previous 12 months. Questions related to food security focused on all members of the household and not just the main respondent to the survey. Thus a respondent is classified based on the level of food insecurity present in the household which may not be necessarily that felt by the respondent. | ||
| 3. | The index places respondents into four categories based on the degree of food insecurity in the household. In the food secure households, all members show no or minimal evidence of food insecurity. In food insecure households without hunger, all members feel anxious about running out of food or compromise on the quality of foods they eat by choosing less expensive option, little or no reduction in the household members' food intake is reported. In food insecure households with moderate hunger, food intake for adults in the household has been reduced to an extent that implies that adults have repeatedly experienced the physical sensation of hunger. In most (but not all) food insecure households with children, such reductions are not observed at this stage for children. In food insecure households with severe hunger at this level, all households with children have reduced the children's food intake to an extent indicating that the children have experienced hunger, adults in households with and without children have repeatedly experienced more extensive reductions in food intake. | ||
| 4. | Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). | ||
| 5. | Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution. | ||
| 6. | Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability. | ||
| 7. | CANSIM table 105-2004. | ||