Education did not follow an expected trend, as people with the lowest levels of education (less than secondary) were found to have significantly lower odds of being food insecure as compared to those reported having graduated from post-secondary education (OR: 0.553, 95% CI: 0.364–0.840, p < 0.005), with no other levels of education being significantly associated with increased odds of food insecurity.
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Prevalence and Predictors of Food Insecurity among Older People in Canada.
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Similarly, home ownership, marital status, and living arrangement have been found to be significantly associated with food insecurity among older people in previous studies [ 17 , 24 , 47 ], however failed to reach significance in the multivariable modeling process, when combined with household income, as shown in Table 7 .
The prevalence of food insecurity did not follow a clear trend with respect to level of education, as highest levels of food insecurity were found to occur among those with other postsecondary—which included Trade Certificate or Diploma, College, CEGEP (College d’enseignement général et professional is a general and vocational college for students in the province of Quebec) or diploma other than trades certificates and diplomas (4.7%), and those with less than secondary education (3.4%).