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. 2022 Jul 29;14(15):3142. doi: 10.3390/nu14153142

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics.

Level of FS
High
n = 1896
Marginal
n = 747
Low
n = 819
Very Low
n = 1029
Total
n = 4491
Demographic and Student Characteristics
Age 20.8 (2.9) 20.8 (2.2) 20.9 (2.7) 21.2 (3.2) 20.9 (2.8)
Citizenship
 US citizen 89.9 86.6 86.2 88.0 88.3
 Non-US citizen 10.1 13.4 13.8 12.0 11.7
Enrollment status
 Full-time 97.4 97.2 98.4 98.2 97.7
 Part-time 2.6 2.8 1.6 1.8 2.3
First-generation college student 24.6 32.9 38.0 45.4 33.2
Race
 African American/Black 5.1 5.5 7.7 8.4 6.4
 Asian 35.1 32.7 31.4 28.0 32.4
 Hispanic 9.4 12.0 16.8 20.8 13.8
 Other * 4.9 5.9 6.0 6.7 5.7
 White 45.4 43.9 38.1 36.2 41.7
Financing Education
Family pays 79.3 73.4 69.7 64.4 73.2
Federal work-study or Pell 19.0 29.0 30.0 37.9 27.0
Finance education 57.7 67.9 72.6 79.7 67.2
Friends pay 1.3 2.3 5.5 12.1 4.7
Grant, scholarship, or fellowship 39.9 41.5 36.1 41.1 39.8
Non-work-study job 31.0 31.9 34.9 37.3 33.3
Academics
Cumulative GPA 3.30 (0.53) 3.19 (0.52) 3.12 (0.56) 3.01 (0.56) 3.18 (0.55)
Other Characteristics
Used on-campus pantry (n = 958) ** 0.7 1.7 3.4 3.1 1.9
Used off-campus pantry (n = 4431) 2.6 4.4 5.5 6.8 4.4
Has campus meal plan (n = 4485) 48.5 49.0 42.2 37.1 44.9
Has SNAP benefits 0.9 1.2 2.2 2.9 1.6

Note. FS is food security; GPA is grade point average; SNAP is supplemental nutrition assistance program. All percentages are out of the column n unless otherwise indicated. The mean is reported for continuous variables. * Other includes students that have an unknown race or identify as another race that does not fall within the categories White, Black or African American, Asian, or Hispanic. ** Data were only collected from students who heard of the on-campus pantry.