Table 1.
Characteristics and food insecurity among library meal programme participants from low-income communities in Silicon Valley, California, USA, summer 2015
| Household food security status (last 12 months) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Food secure | Food insecure | ||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| (n 161) | (n 158) | |||||
| 93 | 59 | 65 | 41 | |||
| Survey language preference | (n 161) | |||||
| English | 92 | 57 | – | – | – | – |
| Spanish | 62 | 39 | – | – | – | – |
| Vietnamese | 7 | 4 | – | – | – | – |
| Race/ethnicity* | (n 157) | (n 154) | ||||
| Latino/Hispanic | 111 | 71 | 58 | 62 | 52 | 85 |
| Asian | 36 | 23 | 28 | 30 | 6 | 10 |
| White | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Black/African American | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Household type* | (n 157) | (n 154) | ||||
| Two-parent/adult led | 123 | 78 | 80 | 86 | 41 | 67 |
| Single-parent/adult led | 24 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 25 |
| Grandparent or other guardian led | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| Number of children in household | (n 157) | (n 154) | ||||
| 0 children | 15 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 11 |
| 1–3 children | 125 | 80 | 74 | 80 | 48 | 78 |
| 4–6 children | 17 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 11 |
| Number of adults in household* | (n 153) | (n 150) | ||||
| 1 adult | 23 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 26 |
| 2 adults | 99 | 65 | 59 | 67 | 38 | 61 |
| 3 or more adults | 31 | 20 | 22 | 25 | 8 | 13 |
| Education | (n 151) | (n 149) | ||||
| Some high school or less | 35 | 23 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 27 |
| High-school diploma or GED | 42 | 28 | 23 | 26 | 19 | 31 |
| Some college | 24 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 21 |
| Bachelor’s or graduate degree | 50 | 33 | 36 | 41 | 13 | 21 |
GED, General Educational Development.
Some totals do not equal the total sample size due to differences in response rates.
*Statistically significant at P≤0·05.