November 2008



Does your family suffer from any food shortages? * Poverty all Crosstabulation
% within Poverty all


Poverty all Total
Below the poverty line Above the poverty line
Does your family suffer from any food shortages? Yes 77.7% 58.6% 70.3%
No 22.3% 41.4% 29.7%
Total 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

Chi-Square Tests

Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) Exact Sig. (2-sided) Exact Sig. (1-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 11.975(b) 1 .001

Continuity Correction(a) 11.077 1 .001

Likelihood Ratio 11.790 1 .001

Fisher's Exact Test


.001 .000
Linear-by-Linear Association 11.934 1 .001

N of Valid Cases 290



a Computed only for a 2x2 table
b 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 32.92.