CITY-SIZE: Metropolitan areas showed a higher 

 frequency of use than non-metropolitan areas. 

 Since the North Central and Southern Regions are 

 more largely non- metropolitan, this may partially 

 explain their lower frequency of use as well as 

 some of their other common characteristics. The 

 time of interviewing may affect this relationship. 

 Interviewing was conducted in June and other find- 

 ings show that a high proportion of non-metropolitan 

 households claimed Winter as the season they served 

 canned fishery products most often, whereas higher 

 proportions of metropolitan households indicated 

 they served them more often in the Spring. 



INCOME: There is a consistent increase in the use 

 of canned fish and shellfish as income rises, show- 

 ing that canned fish and shellfish in general are 

 definitely not especially low cost foods. Neither 

 can they be considered luxury items since their use 

 was very substantial among families in the $3>000 

 to $5,000 income class. There are some exceptions 

 to these generalizations, notably in the use of 

 canned mackerel* 



FAMILY SIZE: As with the percentage of users, the 

 frequency of use increased consistently with the 

 size of household from 30$ of two-person households 

 serving it three times or more in k weeks to $Q% 

 for households having six or more persons. 



RACE: Non-white households use canned fish or 

 shellfish more often than white - Sh% serving it 

 3 or more times in h weeks, against hl% for white 

 households . 



In order to measure more accurately the variations in 

 the use of canned fishery products by different types of households, 

 the following calculations were made for the various types of house- 

 holds showing the average number of servings per week during the 

 four-week period immediately preceding the interview: 



