text: Illinois Ag Connection - Study: College Students Less Food Insecure than Non-Students
  Study: College Students Less Food Insecure than Non-Students
  "No matter how you look at it, college students have far lower rates of food insecurity than both non-college students of similar ages and the general population," he says. According to his study, 9.9% of full-time college students ages 18 to 25 are food insecure, compared to 16.8% for non-students of the same age group. In the general population, about 12.5% were food insecure during the study's time frame.
  Because CPS collects data per household, parents may be responding for adult children living at home. To account for this, Gundersen compared data from young people living on their own and those living with parents. The overall trend was similar, but the difference was even starker ¬¬-- 9.1% of students versus 18.4% of non-students were food insecure according to parent responses.