Table 2.
Level of FS | |||||
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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.