Section 6.4.1n

6.4.1n - Estimated Number of Client Households With Children, by Indicators of Food Insecurity

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	Adult Clients at All Program Sites
How often during the previous 12 months clients' child/children was/were not eating enough because they just couldn't afford enough food
Often	158,410	17,375	1,496	177,281
Sometimes	665,322	53,411	15,433	734,166
Never	2,344,468	143,715	61,811	2,549,994
Clients whose child/children ever skipped meals because there wasn't enough money for food during the previous 12 months
Yes	380,184	39,468	9,449	429,101
No	2,788,016	175,032	69,291	3,032,339
Clients whose child/children was/were hungry at least once during the previous 12 months, but couldn't afford more food
Yes	614,631	47,619	11,732	673,982
No	2,553,569	166,881	67,008	2,787,458
Estimated Total Number of Client Households with at Least One Child Younger Than Age 18 Years	3,168,200	214,500	78,740	3,461,440

In about 0.9 million A2H households with children were reported not to be eating enough because the households could not afford enough food. Other findings are:

In about 0.4 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.