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Employment Loss and Food Insecurity — Race and Sex Disparities in the Context of COVID-19

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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.

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 χ2 P-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

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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.

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 χ2 P value.
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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