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Changing SNAP-Participation Trends Among Farmworker Households in the U.S., 2003-2012
- Source :
- Journal of immigrant and minority health. 20(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- We investigated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation among citizen, documented and undocumented immigrant hired crop farmworkers for ten recent years. We analyzed population representative data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey for 2003–2012 (N = 18,243 households). Time-chart, simple mean differences, and logistic regressions described farmworker household participation in SNAP. The 2008 financial crisis almost doubled SNAP-participation by agriculture households (6.5% in 2003–2007 vs. 11.3% in 2008–2012). The increasing SNAP-participation was found for citizen, documented and undocumented immigrant households. We found low participation among documented (OR 0.67, 95% CI 0.56–0.8) and undocumented immigrants (OR 0.63, 95% CI 0.54–0.74) compared to citizens. Low odds ratios (OR 0.70, 95% CI 0.55–0.89) were found for Hispanic-citizens as compared with non-Hispanic white-citizens. Our results may help inform the debate surrounding the effects of the financial crisis on SNAP-participation and on differences in participation among citizens, immigrants, Hispanics and non-Hispanics, the latter suggesting ethnic farmworker disparities in SNAP-participation.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Epidemiology
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Immigration
Population
Ethnic group
Logistic regression
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Food Supply
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Environmental health
0502 economics and business
medicine
Humans
050207 economics
education
health care economics and organizations
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education.field_of_study
Family Characteristics
Farmers
Public health
05 social sciences
Undocumented Immigrants
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Odds ratio
Middle Aged
Nutrition Surveys
030210 environmental & occupational health
Geography
Cross-Sectional Studies
Logistic Models
Financial crisis
Female
Food Assistance
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15571920
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of immigrant and minority health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e6d3cb166c8711011314e0283a9195c3