Food purchase patterns: empirical identification and analysis of their association with diet quality, socio-economic factors, and attitudes

Thiele, Silke; Peltner, Jonas; Richter, Almut; Mensink, Gert B. M.

doi:10.1186/s12937-017-0292-z

Table 6 The impact of socio-demographic and attitude variables on food pattern scores

From: Food purchase patterns: empirical identification and analysis of their association with diet quality, socio-economic factors, and attitudes

	Natural pattern				Processed pattern				Traditional pattern
	reg.coeff.	95% CI		p-value	reg.coeff.	95% CI		p-value	reg.coeff.	95% CI		p-value
Constant	−1.572	−1.801	−1.343	<0.001	−1.403	−1.626	−1.180	<0.001	−1.641	−1.878	−1.403	<0.001
Household income / 1000^a	0.099	0.080	0.119	<0.001	−0.046	−0.066	−0.027	<0.001	−0.045	−0.065	−0.024	<0.001
Numb. pers. in household	0.198	0.171	0.225	<0.001	0.358	0.332	0.385	<0.001	0.352	0.323	0.380	<0.001
Numb. childr. Aged 0-6	−0.091	−0.144	−0.038	<0.01	−0.191	−0.243	−0.140	<0.001	−0.390	−0.445	−0.334	<0.001
Numb. childr. Aged 7-13	−0.129	−0.170	−0.087	<0.001	0.034	−0.007	0.075	0.100	−0.286	−0.329	−0.242	<0.001
Numb. childr. Aged 14-17	−0.126	−0.199	−0.053	<0.01	0.024	−0.047	0.095	0.502	−0.210	−0.286	−0.134	<0.001
Lower education	−0.093	−0.135	−0.051	<0.001	0.040	−0.001	0.081	0.058	0.200	0.156	0.243	<0.001
Higher education	0.191	0.147	0.234	<0.001	−0.010	−0.053	0.032	0.639	−0.173	−0.219	−0.128	<0.001
Age	0.016	0.007	0.025	<0.01	0.027	0.018	0.035	<0.001	0.031	0.021	0.040	<0.001
Age²/ 100^a	0.003	−0.005	0.011	0.465	−0.025	−0.033	−0.017	<0.001	−0.015	−0.023	−0.006	<0.001
Level of prices	0.056	0.075	0.036	<0.001	−0.145	-0.126	-0.164	<0.001	0.069	0.089	0.049	<0.001
High price awareness	−0.042	−0.078	−0.005	<0.05	0.095	0.059	0.131	<0.001	0.106	0.068	0.144	<0.001
Paying attention to fat	0.070	0.032	0.109	<0.001	0.122	0.085	0.159	<0.001	−0.174	−0.214	−0.134	<0.001
Paying attention to sugar	0.184	0.144	0.224	<0.001	−0.046	−0.085	−0.007	<0.05	−0.047	−0.089	−0.005	<0.05
Paying attention to salt	0.011	−0.032	0.054	0.623	0.006	−0.036	0.048	0.782	−0.077	−0.122	−0.032	<0.001
Eating low carbohydr. Diet	−0.007	−0.057	0.043	0.781	−0.016	−0.065	0.033	0.520	−0.010	−0.062	0.042	0.715
Using supplements	0.051	0.006	0.095	<0.05	0.000	−0.044	0.044	0.999	−0.115	−0.161	−0.068	<0.001
Buying fortified foods	−0.151	−0.198	−0.103	<0.001	0.059	0.012	0.106	<0.05	0.036	−0.014	0.085	0.160
R ² (adjusted)	0.147				0.205				0.126

^a In order to indicate the effect of the independent variable without showing more decimal places, we divided the income and age values by 1000 and 100 respectively

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