Influence of health food literacy on willingness to pay for healthier foods: focus on food insecurity

Nam, Su-Jung; Suk, Jaehye

doi:10.1186/s12939-024-02135-1

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 2 Demographic characteristics according to household type

From: Influence of health food literacy on willingness to pay for healthier foods: focus on food insecurity

Category	Total		Food Security Household		Food Marginal Household		Food Insecurity Household		χ²	p
Category	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ²	p
Total	3321	-	1761	53.0	1334	40.2	226	6.8
Gender									12.021	.003
Male	368	11.1	164	9.3	176	13.2	28	12.4
Female	2953	88.9	1597	90.7	1158	86.8	198	87.6
Age									57.645	.000
19–29	82	2.5	42	2.4	36	2.7	4	1.8
30–39	347	10.4	203	11.5	122	9.2	22	9.7
40–49	743	22.4	435	24.7	274	20.5	34	15.0
50–59	1072	32.3	580	32.9	436	32.7	56	24.8
60–69	789	23.8	383	21.7	333	25.0	73	32.3
70–74	288	8.7	118	6.7	133	10.0	37	16.4
Education									67.997	.000
No Education	53	1.6	18	1.0	26	2.0	9	4.0
Middle school graduate	435	13.1	191	10.8	187	14.0	57	25.2
High school graduate	1582	47.6	844	47.9	624	46.8	114	50.4
College graduate	1235	37.2	698	39.6	492	36.9	45	19.9
Post-graduate	16	0.5	10	0.6	5	0.4	1	0.4
Occupation									53.613	.000
Administrator	28	0.8	20	1.1	7	0.5	1	0.4
Professional Office worker	64 685	1.9 20.6	42 404	2.4 22.9	21 254	1.5 19.0	1 27	0.4 17.3
Service worker Agriculture and fisheries	1185 258	35.7 7.8	621 125	35.3 7.1	480 109	36.0 8.2	84 24	37.1 10.6
Skilled worker Housewife	330 744	9.9 22.4	173 365	9.8 20.7	136 315	10.2 23.6	21 64	9.3 28.3
Others	27	0.8	11	0.6	12	0.9	4	1.8
Marital status									41.106	.000
Married Not Married	2358 963	71.0 29.0	1331 430	75.6 24.4	889 445	66.6 33.4	138 88	61.1 38.9
Number of household members									49.039	.000
1	922	27.8	411	23.3	434	32.5	77	34.1
2	1215	36.6	669	38.0	453	34.0	93	41.2
3	690	20.8	410	23.3	249	18.7	31	13.7
4	447	13.5	247	14.0	176	13.2	24	10.6
5	42	1.3	21	1.2	20	1.5	1	0.4
6	5	0.2	3	0.2	2	0.2	0	0
Monthly household income (in 10,000 KRW)^a									98.152	.000
\( \le \)100	140	4.2	53	3.0	69	5.2	18	8.0
101–200 201–300 301–400 401–500 501–600 601–700	439 691 599 510 505 252	13.2 20.8 18.0 15.4 15.2 7.6	184 344 315 292 318 140	10.4 19.5 17.9 16.6 18.1 8.1	203 293 244 187 175 102	15.2 22.0 18.3 14.0 13.1 87.71	52 54 40 31 12 10	23.0 23.9 17.7 13.7 5.3 4.4
> 700	185	5.6	115	6.5	61	4.6	9	4.0

Notes: ^a1 USD = 1,303.43 KRW (as of July 10, 2023)

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