Table 3 Measures of household food insecurity access, FUTURES baseline survey, 2021; N = 1.113
Characteristic | Unweighted number | Percentage | (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|
Prevalence | |||
Food secure | 456 | 37.6 | (35.0, 40.3) |
Mildly food insecure | 119 | 10.8 | (9.4, 12.4) |
Moderately food insecure | 251 | 23.4 | (21.2, 25.8) |
Severely food insecure | 287 | 28.1 | (25.6, 30.8) |
Domains | |||
Household with anxiety and uncertainty about food supply | 488 | 46.6 | (43.6, 49.5) |
Households with insufficient food quality | 626 | 60.1 | (57.4, 62.7) |
Household with insufficient food intake | 485 | 46.8 | (44.2, 49.4) |
Conditions | |||
Worry about food | 488 | 46.6 | (43.6, 49.5) |
Unable to eat preferred foods | 536 | 51.8 | (48.8, 54.8) |
Eat a limited variety of foods | 505 | 49.8 | (47.3, 52.3) |
Eat foods that you really did not want to eat | 456 | 44.6 | (41.9, 47.2) |
Eat a smaller meal | 453 | 44.3 | (41.8, 46.8) |
Eat fewer meals in a day | 397 | 39.2 | (36.6, 41.8) |
No food to eat of any kind in the household | 245 | 24.0 | (21.6, 26.5) |
Go to sleep at night hungry | 161 | 15.3 | (13.6, 17.2) |
Go a whole day and night without eating anything | 104 | 9.1 | (7.8, 10.5) |