Table 2.

Sample Descriptive Statistics. Overall and by Food Insecurity Status

	Food Secure + At
	Overall		Risk		Food Insecure
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Financial Literacy	6.42	2.45	6.86	2.38	5.69	2.38
Household Income % Poverty Line	149.41	89.13	172.43	89.74	110.98	73.53
Household Size	2.39	1.54	1.58	1.54	2.15	1.89
Male	0.46	0.50	0.48	0.50	0.44	0.50
Age	47.99	18.16	50.49	19.31	43.81	15.16
Hispanic/Latino	0.23	0.42	0.18	0.38	0.33	0.47
African American	0.16	0.36	0.13	0.33	0.21	0.41
Unemployed	0.13	0.33	0.09	0.29	0.18	0.39
Disabled	0.11	0.31	0.08	0.27	0.16	0.37
Retired	0.21	0.41	0.28	0.45	0.11	0.31
Housework or Other Work Status	0.08	0.27	0.08	0.27	0.08	0.27
Divorce/Separated	0.22	0.41	0.20	0.40	0.25	0.43
Widowed	0.08	0.27	0.10	0.30	0.05	0.23
Never Married	0.29	0.46	0.28	0.45	0.31	0.46
Children in Household	0.29	0.46	0.20	0.40	0.44	0.50
SNAP participant	0.27	0.44	0.19	0.39	0.40	0.49
WIC participant	0.06	0.23	0.03	0.17	0.10	0.30
Children in Nutrition Program	0.18	0.38	0.10	0.31	0.29	0.46
High School Graduate	0.43	0.49	0.43	0.50	0.42	0.49
Some College	0.19	0.40	0.19	0.39	0.20	0.40
Associate Degree	0.08	0.28	0.09	0.28	0.08	0.27
Bachelor Degree	0.15	0.36	0.19	0.39	0.09	0.29
N. obs	2,284		1,367		917

Notes: Authors' calculations using ALP data, survey 374. Sample restricted to families with less than 50K in annual income. Weighted summary statistics using sample weights.