Examining differences in diet quality between Canadian Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults: results from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey Nutrition Surveys

Abstract

This study used data from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey, nutrition focused surveys. It compared diet quality between off-reserve Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults in 2004 and 2015, examining food security as a predictor of diet quality. Diet quality scores were not significantly different for Indigenous men and women in 2015 as compared with 2004 but continued to be lower compared with diet quality of the non-indigenous population.