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Table 3. Trends of Food Access Difficulties (over 75 years old)

Table 3. Trends of Food Access Difficulties (over 75 years old)

Table 3. Trends of Food Access Difficulties (over 75 years old)

Source: Policy Research Institute, MAFF
Note 1. We define “food access difficulties” for people aged over 65 years who live 500 meters or more away from stores and who cannot use private cars.
Note 2. We used the grid-square statistics of the 2015 Population Census and 2014 Census of Commerce.
Note 3. Stores include supermarkets, department stores, greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers, and convenience stores.
Note 4. The Tokyo metropolitan area includes Tokyo, Saitama pref., Chiba pref., and Kanagawa pref.
            The Nagoya metropolitan area includes Aichi pref., Gifu pref., and Mie pref.
            The Osaka metropolitan area includes Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo pref., and Nara pref.
Note 5. The difficulty rate means the ratio of food access difficulties for those over 65 years.