Energy, nutrient and food content of snacks in French adults

Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the sample (weighted data) (n = 104,265)

	Weighted data (%)
Sex
Men	47.6
Women	52.4
Age class
18–30 y	20.6
31–45 y	27.9
46–60 y	25.1
< 60 y	26.4
Educational level
Primary	27.7
Secondary	47.4
Undergraduate	11.9
Postgraduate	13.0
Occupational categories ^b
Never employed	3.2
Self-employed (craftsman, shopkeeper, company manager, farmer)	7.5
Managerial staff	19.6
Employees	32.4
Manual workers	15.2
Intermediate professions	22.1
Household income per consumption unit
Unwilling to declare	11.8
< 1200 euros	24.0
1200–1800 euros	292
1800–2700 euros	20.2
> 2700 euros	14.8
Living area
Rural	24.7
20,000 inhabitants.	16.6
20,000–200,000 inhabitants.	18.6
> 200,000 inhabitants	40.1
Household composition
Living alone	16.2
Living with other adult(s) but no child	47.2
Living with at least one child	36.6

^aWeighting accounted for socio-demographic characteristics compared with the national population census (age, occupational category, household including at least one child or not and living area)
^bUnemployed and retired individuals were asked to indicate their last occupation status. In this particular case, the previous status was used to assess the occupation in the analyses

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