31% of Canadians with disabilities lived with food insecurity
A study released by Statistics Canada on October 14 found that 31% of people with disabilities lived in households experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity in 2022. It draws on the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability.
Event / data period: 2022
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A study released by Statistics Canada on October 14 found that 31% of people with disabilities lived in households experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity in 2022. It draws on the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability. The study classified 19% of people with disabilities as living in moderately food-insecure households and 12% in severely food-insecure households. The rate was 41% among people aged 25 to 44, compared with 20% among those aged 65 to 84.
Statistics Canada defines the household categories through survey questions about financially constrained access to food and limits on its quality or quantity.
Data
Disability and food insecurity in Canada
Findings from Statistics Canada’s 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability.
- Food insecurity among persons with disabilities
- 31 percent
- 2022 · Observed
- Moderate food insecurity
- 19 percent
- 2022 · Observed
- Severe food insecurity
- 12 percent
- 2022 · Observed
- Persons with disabilities aged 25–44
- 41 percent
- 2022 · Observed
- Persons with disabilities aged 65–84
- 20 percent
- 2022 · Observed
Methodology
Percentages report food-insecurity classifications in the 2022 survey. Moderate and severe categories are measured at the household level; age-group rates are among persons with disabilities in each age band.
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