title: Prevalence and sociodemographic risk factors related to household food security in Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Canada's Aboriginal population is vulnerable to food insecurity and increasingly lives off-reserve. The Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2 Nutrition, was used to compare the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of food insecurity between non-Aboriginal and off-reserve Aboriginal households.
  
  
  METHODS
  Food insecurity status was based on Health Canada's revised interpretation of responses to the US Household Food Security Survey Module. Logistic regression was used to assess if Aboriginal households were at higher risk for food insecurity than non-Aboriginal households, adjusting for household sociodemographic factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Canada.
  
  
  METHODS
  Households (n 35,107), 1528 Aboriginal and 33 579 non-Aboriginal.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-three per cent of Aboriginal households were food insecure as compared with 9 % of non-Aboriginal households (univariate OR 5.2, 95 % CI 4.2, 6.3). Whereas 14 % of Aboriginal households had severe food insecurity, 3 % of non-Aboriginal households did. The prevalence of sociodemographic risk factors for household food insecurity was higher for Aboriginal households. Aboriginal households were more likely to have three or more children (14 % v. 5 %), be lone-parent households (2 1 % v. 5 %), not have home ownership (52 % v. 31 %), have educational attainment of secondary school or less (43 % v. 26 %), have income from sources other than wages or salaries (38 % v. 29 %), and be in the lowest income adequacy category (33 % v. 12 %). Adjusted for these sociodemographic factors, Aboriginal households retained a higher risk for food insecurity than non-Aboriginal households (OR 2.6, 95 % CI 2.1, 3.2).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Off-reserve Aboriginal households in Canada merit special attention for income security and poverty alleviation initiatives.
authors.affiliation: Alberta Institute of Human Nutrition, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Noreen.willows@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Noreen D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Willows
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Veugelers
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Raine
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuhle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005523:Food Supply / Q000191:economics*; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016015:Logistic Models; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data