Section 15.2.2
15.5.2 - Having Seniors or Children and Household Tradeoffs
Household Trade-offs and Household Structure. There is also considerable
association between household structure and perceiving direct trade-offs between
necessities (Table 15.5.2).
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Notes
Item nonresponses to all variables involved
were excluded in calculating percentages and sample sizes.
Statistically significant based on chi-square test (d.f. = 4) at the 1% level.
Many of the results shown in Table 15.5.2 mimic
correlations seen earlier between income and household structure. In general,
households with children are more likely than others to report having to make a
trade-off between food and other necessities.
- 37.6% of households with both seniors and children and 31.1% of households with children and no seniors reported making trade-offs between food and medical care, compared to 29.7% for the whole population.
- The comparable percentages for trade-offs between food and utilities were 48.0% and 55.1% for the two household categories with children, compared to 43.1% for the whole population.
- For the trade-off between food and rent (or mortgage payments), 44.6% of
households with children but no seniors had to face the trade-off, compared to
only 17.0% of households with seniors but no children.
