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Estimated Number of Client Household with Children (6.4.1N)

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Table 6.4.1N provide estimates of the number of A2H households with children which reported various indicators of food insecurity related to the children in the household.

Table 6.4.1N
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF CLIENT HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN BY INDICATORS OF FOOD INSECURITY

	Pantry Client Households	Kitchen Client Households	Shelter Client Households	Client Households
How often during the previous 12 months clients’ child/children was/were not eating enough because they just couldn’t afford enough food
Often	187,700	9,500	2,500	200,100
Sometimes	772,000	27,400	17,100	808,600
Never	2,541,100	130,600	52,100	2,731,200
Clients whose child/children ever skipped meals because there wasn’t enough money for food during the previous 12 months
Yes	480,300	20,400	10,000	508,400
No	3,020,400	147,200	61,800	3,231,500
Clients whose child/children was/were hungry at least once during the previous 12 months, but couldn’t afford more food
Yes	578,400	26,300	12,400	616,100
No	2,922,300	141,200	59,300	3,123,900
ESTIMATED TOTAL NUMBER OF CLIENT HOUSEHOLDS WITH AT LEAST ONE CHILD YOUNGER THAN AGE 18 YEARS	3,500,700	167,500	71,800	3,740,000

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.

In about 1 million A2H households with children were reported not to be eating enough because the households could not afford enough food.  Other findings are:

• In over 0.5 million A2H households, children had to skip meals because of lack of resources to buy food.
• In more than 0.6 million of the households, children were reported to have been hungry, at least once, because of lack of household resources to buy food.