June 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 74.4% 60.9% 68.8%
No 25.6% 39.1% 31.2%
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 5.436(b) 1 .020

Continuity Correction(a) 4.828 1 .028

Likelihood Ratio 5.395 1 .020

Fisher's Exact Test


.023 .014
Linear-by-Linear Association 5.416 1 .020

N of Valid Cases 266



a Computed only for a 2x2 table
b 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 34.32.