Estimated Number of Households with Adults (6.3.2N)

As shown in Table 6.3.1N, more than 4.4 million A2H households reported that adults in the households had had to cut the size of their meals or had had to skip meals altogether at least during some months of the previous 12 months because there wasn’t enough money for food.

Table 6.3.1N
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS, BY INDICATORS OF FOOD INSECURITY

	Pantry Client Households	Kitchen Client Households	Shelter Client Households	All Client Households
How often adult clients or other adults in the household cut the size of meals or skipped meals because there wasn’t enough money for food for the previous 12 months
Almost every month	2,029,500	282,200	188,000	2,534,700
Some months but not every month	1,611,900	173,000	122,900	1,897,100
Only one or two months	571,900	71,200	63,300	710,600
Never	4,384,500	473,600	295,800	5,125,300

Clients who ate less than they felt they should because there wasn’t enough money to buy food for the previous 12 months
Yes	4,396,700	534,300	384,100	5,333,900
No	4,203,300	465,700	285,900	4,936,100

Clients who were hungry but didn’t eat because they couldn’t afford enough food for the previous 12 months
Yes	3,076,900	459,900	338,800	3,954,700
No	5,523,100	540,100	331,200	6,315,300

Clients or other adults in the household did not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food
Yes	1,981,700	349,800	278,600	2,702,300
No	6,618,300	650,200	391,400	7,567,700
ESTIMATED TOTAL NUMBER OF CLIENT HOUSEHOLDS	8,600,000	1,000,000	670,000	10,270,000

Note:
See Appendix B for the estimated number of people served in subgroups of A2H clients.

Columns in this table do not exactly add up to the column total. This discrepancy occurs because tables showing percentage distributions are weighted with the monthly weight, while the number of clients presented in this table is estimated at the annual level. Because the relationship between the monthly and annual weights varies across individuals depending on the frequency of visits to program sites, applying annual estimates to a monthly snapshot of percentage distributions results in small discrepancies in column totals.

Other findings include:

Adults in 5.3 million A2H households ate less than they felt they should due to lack of resources to buy food.
Nearly 4 million A2H households contained adults were hungry but did not eat because they could not afford enough food.
2.7 million A2H households included adults who did not eat for a while day because there was not enough money for food.