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Food insecurity status at 4 y
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Variables
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Food secure 90.8% (n=1568)
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Food insecure 9.2% (n =158)
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Total % (n)
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Total N
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Place factors
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Materially deprived
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36.3 (569)
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53.2 (84)
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37.8 (653)
|
1726
|
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Socially deprived
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34.6 (542)
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52.5 (83)
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36.2 (625)
|
1726
|
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Low social cohesion c
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50.5 (771)
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69.1 (105)
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52.2 (876)
|
1679
|
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High social disorder c
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23.9 (374)
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45.5 (71)
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25.9 (445)
|
1719
|
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Living location c
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1710
|
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Rural/small town
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22.1 (343)
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22.6 (35)
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22.1 (378)
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CA (semi-urban)
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11.3 (176)
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11.0 (17)
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11.3 (193)
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CMA (urban)
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66.6 (1036)
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66.5 (103)
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66.6 (1139)
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Other explanatory variables
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Number of people in household (mean, SD)
c
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4.1 (0.96)
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4.3 (1.2)
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4.1 (1.0)
|
1726
|
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SES (tertiles) c
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1715
|
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Low
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28.8 (449)
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62.8 (98)
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32.0 (547)
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Medium
|
34.3 (535)
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28.9 (45)
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33.8 (580
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High
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36.9 (575)
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8.3 (13)
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34.3 (588)
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Single parent family c
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11.0 (173)
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26.0 (41)
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12.4 (214)
|
1726
|
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At least one person in household smokes
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28.9 (453)
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42.4 (67)
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30.1 (520)
|
1726
|
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Mother is an immigrant
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8.1 (127)
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17.7 (28)
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9.0 (155)
|
1726
|
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Age of the mother (mean y, SD)
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33.3 (5.0)
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32.5 (6.3)
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33.2 (5.2)
|
1726
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a All variables except living location, number of people in the household, and age of the mother were significantly associated with food insecurity at the 5% level.
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b All variables (except where indicated in italics) are percentages (n).
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c Measured at 4 y (2002) here but used as a time-dependent variable in multivariate analysis.
- QLSCD – Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development; CA – census agglomeration; CMA – census metropolitan area; SD – standard deviation; SES – socioeconomic status.
