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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2019 Jul;23(7):910–918. doi: 10.1007/s10995-018-02717-w

Table 3.

Predicting household food insecurity status for U.S. first graders (n=12,035, attending 1,308 schools)a

Odds Ratio Lower 95% Confidence Interval Upper 95% Confidence Interval P (robust)
School-Level Variables
Intercept 1 189*** 1.147 1.231 <0.001
Private School (ref: Public) 0.973 0.942 1.006 0.41
City school (ref: Suburban) 1.030 1.012 1.050 0.10
Rural/town school (ref: Suburban) 1.001 0.983 1.018 0.99
School enrollment 0.999 0.994 1.003 0.80
Parental involvement 0.987 0.979 0.994 0.07
Title 1 1.061*** 1.044 1.079 <0.001
Individual-Level Variables
Focal Variables
Black (ref: White) 0.972 0.940 1.004 0.38
Hispanic (ref: White) 1.011 0.989 1.034 0.62
Asian (ref: White) 0.949 0.910 0.990 0.22
Other Race (ref: White) 1.021 0.994 1.050 0.44
1 foreign-born (FB) and 1 US-born parent (ref: FB parents) 0.946* 0.920 0.973 0.05
US-born parents (ref: Foreign-born parents) 0.943* 0.916 0.968 0.03
Child Demographics
Female (ref: Male) 0.986 0.973 0.998 0.25
Age 0.999 0.998 1.001 0.82
Socioeconomic Status- related Variables
Household size 1.017 1.007 1.027 0.09
SES 0.942*** 0.927 0.955 <0.001
One parent household 1.044 1.015 1.076 0.14
Teen mother 1.014 0.992 1.038 0.52
Prekindergarten 0.980 0.963 0.996 0.21
Health Measures
Parental depression 1.064** 1.042 1.087 0.01
Parental health status 0.967*** 0.959 0.974 <0.001
a

The model uses the sampling weight W6CS6P_6T0a,

***

p≤.0001,

**

p≤.01,

*

p≤.05