Conrad Aislinn, Ronnenberg Megan
School of Social Work The University of Iowa.
Rural Sociol. 2022 Sep;87(3):936-959. doi: 10.1111/ruso.12435. Epub 2022 Mar 16.
One in three U.S. households has experienced material hardship. The inadequate provision of basic needs, including food, healthcare, and transportation, is more typical in households with children or persons of color, yet little is known about material hardship in rural spaces. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of material hardships in Iowa and examine the relationship between rurality, income, and material hardship. Using data from the 2016 State Innovation Model Statewide Consumer Survey, we use logistic regression to examine the association between rurality, income, and four forms of material hardship. Rural respondents incurred lower odds than non-rural respondents for all four hardship models. All four models indicated that lower income respondents incurred greater odds for having material hardship. Material hardship was reported across all groups, with rurality, income, race, and age as strong predictors of material hardship among our sample.
三分之一的美国家庭经历过物质困难。基本需求（包括食品、医疗保健和交通）供应不足在有孩子或有色人种的家庭中更为常见，但对于农村地区的物质困难情况却知之甚少。本研究的目的是描述爱荷华州物质困难的普遍程度，并研究农村地区、收入与物质困难之间的关系。利用2016年全州创新模式全州消费者调查的数据，我们使用逻辑回归来研究农村地区、收入与四种物质困难形式之间的关联。在所有四种困难模型中，农村受访者面临的困难几率低于非农村受访者。所有四种模型均表明，收入较低的受访者面临物质困难的几率更高。在我们的样本中，所有群体都报告了物质困难情况，农村地区、收入、种族和年龄是物质困难的有力预测因素。
