Table 3.
Financial Impact of COVID-19 for Overall Sample and by Racial/Ethnic Group.
| Overall N (%) |
Black N (%) |
White N (%) |
Latinx N (%) |
Asian N (%) |
χ2 | Cramer’s V | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change in your employment status | |||||||
| Reduced hours or lost job | 2267 (49.1) | 193 (50.1) | 1012 (49.5) | 562 (54.1) | 355 (42.2) | 40.67* | .07 |
| No change | 2052 (44.4) | 164 (42.6) | 893 (43.7) | 404 (38.9) | 447 (53.1) | ||
| Increased hours or started job | 302 (6.5) | 28 (7.3) | 139 (6.8) | 73 (7.0) | 40 (4.8) | ||
| Finances impacted by COVID-19 | |||||||
| Not at all | 707 (15.3) | 51a,b,c (13.3) | 332c (16.3) | 123b (11.8) | 156a,c (18.5) | 115.84* | .10+ |
| Slightly | 914 (19.8) | 54a (14.1) | 463b (22.8) | 164a,c (15.8) | 172b,c (20.4) | ||
| Somewhat | 1286 (27.9) | 95a,b (24.7) | 602b (29.6) | 258a (24.8) | 247a,b (29.3) | ||
| Very much or Extremely | 1707 (37.0) | 184a (47.9) | 638b (31.4) | 496a (47.6) | 269b (31.9) | ||
| Concern about affording food | |||||||
| Not at all | 2305 (49.5) | 153a, b (39.5) | 1219c (59.6) | 393b (37.4) | 405a (47.3) | 211.53* | .13+ |
| Slightly | 992 (21.3) | 91a (23.5) | 422a (20.6) | 241a (23.0) | 172a (20.1) | ||
| Somewhat | 851 (18.3) | 76a, b (19.6) | 280c (13.7) | 261b (24.9) | 164a (19.1) | ||
| Very much or Extremely | 505 (10.9) | 67a (17.3) | 126b (6.2) | 155a (14.8) | 116a (13.5) | ||
Note. Since three chi-square tests were conducted for this category, we used Bonferroni corrections to adjust our alpha level to .017.
a, b, c Racial/ethnic groups with the same letter subscripts had column proportions that did not differ significantly from each other according to column proportion z-tests with Bonferroni corrections. Column proportion z-tests were only performed on items that demonstrated at least a small effect size using Cramer’s V.
*p < .017. +small effect size.