Employment Loss and Food Insecurity — Race and Sex Disparities in the Context of COVID-19
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 19 — August 18, 2022
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Figure 1.
Estimated prevalence of 3 employment insecurity outcomes for St. Louis County residents and each sex and race subgroup. Prevalence is reported overall and for each race and sex subgroup. Group differences were assessed with a Rao-Scott χ2P– value.
| Prevalence, 95% CI | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Overall | White female | White male | Black female | Black male | P-value |
| Furloughed because of COVID-19 | 12.5 (9.5–15.5) | 15.1 (9.9–20.4) | 8.5 (3.7–13.2) | 13.5 (6.8–20.1) | 15.8 (4.6–27.0) | 0.25 |
| Laid off because of COVID-19 | 9.7 (7.2–12.2) | 8.6 (5.0–12.1) | 6.1 (3.0–9.2) | 16.0 (8.9–23.0) | 7.1 (2.6–11.6) | 0.02 |
| Reduced pay/hours because of COVID-19 | 24.0 (20.4–27.7) | 20.2 (15.1–25.3) | 23.0 (16.7–29.3) | 27.1 (19.0–35.2) | 26.4 (13.5–39.3) | 0.56 |
Figure 2.
Estimated weighted prevalence for 3 food insecurity outcomes for St. Louis County residents and each sex and race subgroup. Prevalence is reported overall and for each race and sex subgroup. Group differences were assessed by using a Rao-Scott χ2Pvalue.
| Prevalence, 95% CI | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Overall | White female | White male | Black female | Black male | P-value |
| Always or nearly always worried that food will run out | 6.4 (5.0–7.74) | 2.8 (1.4–4.3) | 5.9 (3.2–8.6) | 16.2 (11.2–21.2) | 9.2 (4.3–14.1) | <.001 |
| Received free groceries or a free meal | 13.3 (11.1–15.6) | 8.4 (5.6–11.2) | 7.8 (4.3–11.3) | 28.6 (23.1–34.2) | 20.2 (13.0–27.5) | <.001 |
| Sometimes or often not enough food | 3.7 (2.6–4.9) | 2.3 (0.7–3.9) | 3.7 (1.2–6.1) | 7.3 (3.9–10.7) | 4.9 (1.4–8.4) | 0.02 |
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