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.