Table 1.
Respondent and household weighted characteristics in June 2020.
| Full Analytical Sample | High Food Security |
Marginal Food Security |
Low Food Security |
Very Low Food Security | F-Test |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted Mean (Linearized SD) |
N = 1567 | N = 800 | N = 173 | N = 325 | N = 269 | |
| Female (%) | 55.79 (1.83) |
58.80 (2.43) |
65.78 (4.81) |
48.84 (3.85) |
48.14 (5.08) |
* |
| Age | 47.70 (0.68) |
54.04 (0.80) |
47.73 (1.72) |
38.13 (1.17) |
39.07 (1.62) |
*** |
| Presence of children (%) | 32.09 (1.67) |
22.23 (1.84) |
38.85 (4.52) |
37.01 (3.54) |
53.73 (5.04) |
*** |
| Self-Reported Race and Ethnicity (%) | ||||||
| White | 63.95 (1.89) |
71.86 (2.40) |
58.45 (5.01) |
52.12 (3.93) |
56.70 (5.60) |
*** |
| Black | 10.85 (1.42) |
5.33 (1.04) |
18.92 (4.36) |
16.54 (3.26) |
16.34 (5.89) |
*** |
| Multiple or other race | 8.82 (0.95) |
9.02 (1.29) |
7.93 (2.87) |
8.59 (2.09) |
9.06 (2.53) |
|
| Hispanic | 16.37 (1.66) |
13.79 (2.22) |
14.70 (3.79) |
22.67 (3.89) |
17.90 (4.69) |
|
| Education (%) | ||||||
| Highschool or less | 35.50 (1.89) |
28.97 (2.48) |
39.06 (4.94) |
44.26 (3.98) |
43.43 (5.49) |
** |
| Some college or 2-year degree |
31.24 (1.54) |
34.27 (2.17) |
31.47 (4.52) |
26.55 (3.25) |
27.11 (3.49) |
|
| Completed college | 20.92 (1.30) |
23.72 (1.76) |
22.43 (3.73) |
16.60 (2.52) |
16.27 (4.04) |
|
| Graduate degree | 12.33 (0.90) |
13.04 (1.37) |
7.04 (1.61) |
12.59 (1.89) |
13.19 (2.12) |
* |
| Less than college education | 66.74 (1.53) |
63.24 (2.12) |
70.53 (4.01) |
70.81 (3.08) |
70.54 (4.36) |
|
| Geographic Region (%) | ||||||
| Northeast | 16.55 (1.24) |
16.70 (1.62) |
18.24 (3.47) |
21.48 (3.52) |
8.64 (1.76) |
*** |
| Midwest | 21.40 (1.41) |
24.85 (2.12) |
19.59 (3.90) |
19.82 (2.70) |
13.27 (2.66) |
** |
| South | 37.93 (1.72) |
36.78 (2.25) |
37.82 (4.70) |
32.80 (3.42) |
48.32 (5.22) |
|
| West | 24.13 (1.60) |
21.68 (2.02) |
24.35 (4.37) |
25.90 (3.68) |
29.78 (4.88) |
|
| Nonmetro | 12.69 (1.05) |
12.76 (1.47) |
15.28 (3.52) |
9.87 (2.01) |
14.30 (2.78) |
|
| Poor Mental Health Days in the Past Month (%) | ||||||
| Any days in the past month | 66.55 (1.67) |
55.38 (2.37) |
67.13 (4.61) |
78.12 (3.23) |
88.09 (2.90) |
*** |
| More than 2 weeks in the past month | 19.41 (1.33) |
12.15 (1.43) |
20.90 (3.71) |
24.51 (3.37) |
35.75 (4.58) |
*** |
* = p < 0.05 ** = p < 0.01 *** = p < 0.001.