Table 1.
Background characteristics of children aged <1 month to 7 years by food security status
| Food secure* | Marginal food security | Food insecure | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||||
| Sex category | ||||||||||||
| Boys | 1195 | 51·2 | 336 | 53·4 | 579 | 53·9 | 2110 | 51·2 | ||||
| Girls | 1215 | 48·8 | 308 | 46·6 | 488 | 46·1 | 2011 | 48·8 | ||||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||
| Black | 565 | 52·8 | 206 | 18·1 | 323 | 29·2 | 1094 | 14·5 | ||||
| Mexican | 653 | 48·8 | 238 | 17·9 | 441 | 33·3 | 1332 | 25·3 | ||||
| White† | 1192 | 75·3 | 200 | 10·8 | 303 | 13·9 | 1695 | 60·2 | ||||
*
NHANES sampling weights were applied during the analyses.
†
White includes multiracial and small racial groups.
‡
se is standard error linearised per Taylor series linearisation.
§
Income was expressed as poverty:income ratio (PIR) provided by the US’ Bureau of the Census.