August 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 70.9% 57.0% 67.6%
No 29.1% 43.0% 32.4%
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 5.340(b) 1 .021

Continuity Correction(a) 4.722 1 .030

Likelihood Ratio 5.181 1 .023

Fisher's Exact Test


.027 .016
Linear-by-Linear Association 5.324 1 .021

N of Valid Cases 330



a Computed only for a 2x2 table
b 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 25.62.