1 Race/ethnicity options include: Asian (Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian, and Southeast Asian), Black,
Indigenous (self-identified with First Nations, Metis, or Inuit), White,
and other (Arab, Latin American, West Asian (Middle East countries),
other, multiple, and unknown race/ethnicity).
2 Children < 18 years were not asked this
information.
3 Lower-income Canadians were those whose
self-reported before tax total household income was below the relevant
low-income cut-off (LICO), as calculated yearly by Statistics Canada,
for each of 7 household sizes and 5 community sizes. The LICO (before
tax) is the income level at which families or unattached individuals
spend on average 55% of before tax income on food, shelter, and
clothing. Given we collected data on household income, household size,
and postal code, we were able to ascertain if a household was below the
LICO threshold.6
† Probable food allergy was defined as any individual who was
reported, by the household respondent, to have symptoms/signs compatible
with a convincing history and/or a physician diagnosis of a peanut, tree
nut, fish, shellfish, sesame, milk, egg, wheat, and/or soy allergy.
Refer to Appendix for definition of convincing history.
*Except for household size where the mean (SD) number of household
members is reported.
Abbreviations: FA: food allergy
Boldface cell indicate significant results.