March 2008



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


Poverty all Total
Below the poverty level Above the poverty level
Does your family suffer from any food shortages? Yes 75.0% 62.6% 70.6%
No 25.0% 37.4% 29.4%
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 5.477(b) 1 .019

Continuity Correction(a) 4.896 1 .027

Likelihood Ratio 5.383 1 .020

Fisher's Exact Test


.022 .014
Linear-by-Linear Association 5.460 1 .019

N of Valid Cases 323



a Computed only for a 2x2 table
b 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 33.82.