1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«[T]he purpose of our study was to (1) examine the association of Black–white racial identity and prevalence and severity of household food insecurity, and (2) understand how racialized vulnerability manifests differently for a set of key socio-demographic predictors.» (p. 889)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Data comes from the CCHS. «The Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) is a crosssectional population-representative survey of individuals aged 12 years and older […]. [This] study was limited to households with complete data on the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) and respondent’s ethnoracial identity as either Black or white. Five cycles were pooled from 2005 to 2014 to yield a sample of 549,247 Black or white respondents in total, of which 491,364 had complete data in the HFSSM.» (p. 889)

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

The results show that, «[e]ven after adjusting for other socio-demographic characteristics, Black-respondent households experienced almost double the odds of food insecurity of white-respondent households—an association as strong in magnitude as other commonly reported predictors of vulnerability, such as female lone-parenthood. [The] findings demonstrate that the differential in household food insecurity between Black and white households exists on a national level […].» (p. 893-895) «Among white households, couples alone with no children had the lowest predicted probability of food insecurity, while female lone-parent households had the highest […]. Each Black subgroup had a significantly higher probability of household food insecurity compared with their white counterpart, save male lone parents and households with missing data.» (p. 892) Also, «while living in Quebec was protective for white households, Black households in Quebec had the same probability of food insecurity as Black households in Ontario. That living in Quebec—as well as all other provinces—affords no discernible protection for the Black population suggests that race is uniquely shaping the vulnerability of this group.» (p. 895)