Disparities in the frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption by socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics in Canada

Azagba, Sunday; Sharaf, Mesbah F

doi:10.1186/1475-2891-10-118

Table 1 Variables description and summary statistics

From: Disparities in the frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption by socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics in Canada

	Variables description	Mean	S.D
Fruits & vegetables	daily consumption of fruits and vegetables (frequency)	4.95	2.72
Age 18-29	age between 18 to 29	0.23	0.42
Age 30-39	age between 30 to 39	0.20	0.40
Age 40-49	age between 40 to 49	0.23	0.42
Age 50-59	age between 50 to 59	0.20	0.40
Age 60-69	age between 60 to 69	0.13	0.34
Male	gender is male	0.50	0.50
Female	Gender is female	0.50	0.50
Married	married/living with a partner/common-law	0.64	0.48
Separated	widowed/separated/divorced	0.10	0.30
Single	never married	0.25	0.43
Less secondary education	completed education is less than secondary	0.12	0.32
Secondary education	completed education is secondary	0.16	0.37
Some post secondary	completed education is some post secondary	0.09	0.28
Post secondary	completed education is post secondary	0.59	0.49
Low income	household income ( less than $30,000)	0.20	0.40
Low middle income	household income ($30,000-$49,999)	0.15	0.36
High middle income	household income ($50,000-$79,999)	0.14	0.35
High income	household income ($80,000 or more)	0.35	0.48
Strong social interaction	sense of belonging to community (strong)	0.60	0.49
Weak social interaction	sense of belonging to community (weak)	0.36	0.48
Have kids	household with kids	0.47	0.50
No kids	no kids in household	0.44	0.50
Current smoker	daily/occasional smoker	0.24	0.43
Former smoker	former daily/occasional smoker	0.38	0.48
Never smoker	never smoked	0.36	0.48
Immigrants	country of birth is not Canada	0.22	0.41
Non immigrants	country of birth is Canada	0.75	0.43
Quebec	province of residence is Quebec	0.23	0.42
Ontario	province of residence is Ontario	0.39	0.48
British Columbia	province of residence is British Columbia	0.13	0.34
Atlantic provinces	province of residence is New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador	0.07	0.25
Western provinces	province of residence is Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba	0.16	0.37
N		93,719

The statistics are weighted using the CCHS sampling weights.

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