Table 1:
Sociodemographic characteristics of students by food security status among college students at a large public university (n=754)
| Total | High food security (52.3%) | Marginal food security (16.6%) | Low food security (15.8%) | Very low food security (15.3%) | P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Weighted % | n | Weighted % | n | Weighted % | n | Weighted % | n | Weighted % | ||
| Age, mean (SE) | 22.4 (0.1) | 22.5 (0.2) | 22.4 (0.3) | 22.2 (0.2) | 22.7 (0.4) | 0.72 | |||||
| Sex | <0.001 | ||||||||||
| Male | 265 | 47.7 | 144 | 54.3 | 44 | 12.8 | 41 | 15.1 | 36 | 17.8 | |
| Female | 489 | 52.3 | 224 | 50.5 | 91 | 20.1 | 92 | 16.4 | 82 | 13.0 | |
| Race/ethnicity | <0.001 | ||||||||||
| White | 214 | 60.6 | 98 | 51.1 | 43 | 16.3 | 39 | 15.8 | 34 | 16.8 | |
| Black | 90 | 5.6 | 32 | 41.7 | 12 | 12.2 | 16 | 15.4 | 30 | 30.7 | |
| Hispanic | 143 | 3.4 | 60 | 46.0 | 29 | 20.3 | 24 | 12.7 | 30 | 21.0 | |
| Asian | 247 | 25.0 | 148 | 59.5 | 37 | 15.2 | 46 | 16.4 | 16 | 8.9 | |
| Other/Multi-racial | 60 | 5.4 | 30 | 47.4 | 14 | 29.0 | 8 | 14.9 | 8 | 8.6 | |
| Degree type | <0.001 | ||||||||||
| Undergraduate | 693 | 73.3 | 334 | 52.3 | 125 | 16.6 | 126 | 16.8 | 108 | 14.3 | |
| Graduate | 61 | 26.8 | 34 | 52.4 | 10 | 16.7 | 7 | 13.0 | 10 | 18.0 | |
| First-generation student | <0.001 | ||||||||||
| No | 455 | 75.1 | 235 | 54.3 | 86 | 15.6 | 71 | 14.4 | 63 | 15.7 | |
| Yes | 299 | 24.9 | 133 | 46.1 | 49 | 19.5 | 62 | 20.1 | 55 | 14.3 | |
| Financial aid | <0.001 | ||||||||||
| No | 107 | 16.8 | 71 | 64.7 | 17 | 15.2 | 13 | 11.6 | 6 | 8.6 | |
| Yes | 647 | 83.2 | 297 | 49.8 | 118 | 16.9 | 120 | 16.6 | 112 | 16.7 | |