Table 2 Characteristics of food secure compared to food insecure participants
Food secure (%) | Food insecure (%) | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Total population | N = 19,789 (weighted study population N = 608,437,356) | 86.1 | 13.9 | |
Age | Mean (SD) | 48.5 (16.8) | 41.4 (14.9) | < 0.0001 |
Gender | 0.39 | |||
Male | 49.4 | 48.5 | ||
Female | 50.6 | 51.5 | ||
Race | < 0.0001 | |||
Non-Hispanic, White | 72.2 | 48.8 | ||
Non-Hispanic, Black | 9.7 | 18.6 | ||
Hispanic | 11.4 | 26.6 | ||
Other | 6.6 | 6.0 | ||
Marital status | < 0.0001 | |||
Married | 58.6 | 36.7 | ||
Widowed | 5.8 | 4.8 | ||
Divorced/separated | 11.9 | 19.7 | ||
Never married | 17.2 | 25.9 | ||
Living with partner | 6.5 | 13.0 | ||
Education level | < 0.0001 | |||
< High school | 14.1 | 34.1 | ||
High school graduate | 21.7 | 27.5 | ||
>High school | 64.3 | 38.4 | ||
Income-to-poverty ratio | Mean (SD) | 3.2 (1.6) | 1.4 (1.1) | < 0.0001 |
Born outside US | Yes | 15.1 | 23.9 | < 0.0001 |
Insurance | < 0.0001 | |||
Private | 53.7 | 25.7 | ||
Medicare | 14.7 | 7.7 | ||
Public, not Medicare | 15.8 | 26.1 | ||
None | 15.8 | 40.6 | ||
Smoking | < 0.0001 | |||
Never | 56.5 | 43.6 | ||
Current | 17.7 | 39.1 | ||
Former | 25.8 | 17.3 | ||
SNAP | Yes | 4.8 | 16.7 | < 0.0001 |
WIC | Yes | 4.2 | 2.3 | < 0.0001 |
Emergency food | Yes | 3.4 | 30.2 | < 0.0001 |
Diabetes | Yes | 12.2 | 14.7 | 0.002 |
Dyslipidemia | Yes | 55.9 | 53.5 | 0.10 |
Hypertension | Yes | 38.5 | 35.0 | 0.01 |
Cardiovascular Disease | Yes | 7.4 | 9.0 | 0.03 |
MDD | Yes | 6.2 | 20.4 | < 0.0001 |
MHP | Yes | 6.9 | 14.0 | < 0.0001 |