The Korean Journal of Community Living Science (한국지역사회생활과학회지)
- Volume 16 Issue 2
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- Pages.111-120
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- 2005
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- 1229-8565(pISSN)
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- 2287-5190(eISSN)
The Elderly Families' Daily Food Cultivation, Preservation in Rural, Korea -Comparison with middle aged families-
농촌거주 노년가족의 일상 식품 생산과 가공 및 저장 -중년가족과의 비교-
- Rhie Seung Gyo (Dept. of Food and Nutrition The University of Suwon) ;
- Chung Kum Ju (Dept. of Food and Nutrition The University of Suwon) ;
- Won Hyang Ryu (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Sangji University)
- Published : 2005.06.01
Abstract
Recently, the number of elderly people in the rural area of Korea has increased remarkably and their food security has become deteriorated mainly due to the low economic status. To investigate the food security for the elderly people, relevant data were obtained by offering questionnaire to the rural elderly people who were engaging in traditional agricultural production for daily foods. The subjects of 1870 were collected in 9 provinces according to PPS(Probability Proportional to Size). Questionnaire contained the items of dietary habit, food cultivation, Production and Preservation, and the suey was conducted by trained interviewers. SAS (ver 8.1) was used for statistical analyses in which Chi-square tests and General Linear Models were made. Family of the elderly people was