Basic Needs & Student Success Survey

Overview

  • The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) developed the Basic Needs and Student Success Survey (BNS3) and administered it to undergraduate students participating in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) or the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) at 12 colleges across the CSU, CCC, and UC systems from 2022 to 2023.
  • This site provides a top level descriptive analysis of each question in the survey.

Purpose

The main purpose of this third cross-sectional study was to evaluate the following:

  • The impact of receiving CalFresh Food Benefits
  • Barriers to applying to CalFresh Food
  • College student food insecurity
  • The impact of and barriers to using other basic needs services

Note: See the methods page for recruitment, data collection, and data cleaning.

Participating Colleges


Use of Website and Access to Data

Please reach out to our PI, Stephanie Bianco sbianco@csuchico.edu, if you would like more information on using or citing this website, accessing the data, methods used, or survey instruments used.

How to Cite This Website

Center for Healthy Communities. (2023). Statewide Basic Needs and Student Success Survey. https://chicocalfresh.github.io/BNS3_Statewide_Summary/