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Table 1 Descriptive trends in the percent who cooked and mean per capita time spent cooking, 2003 to 2006 (N = 139,219)

From: Who’s cooking? Trends in US home food preparation by gender, education, and race/ethnicity from 2003 to 2016

 

N=

% who cooked at home

Mean per capita time spent cooking (min/person/day)

2003

2016

2003

2016

p-value

2003

SE

2016

SE

p-value

Gender

 Male

7243

3508

35%

46%

0.000

15.4

0.5

20.4

0.8

0.000

 Female

9104

4199

67%

70%

0.006

46.6

0.8

49.5

1.2

0.045

Race/Ethnicity

 NH white

11,726

4791

52%

60%

0.000

29.3

0.5

32.3

0.9

0.006

 NH black

1892

1124

48%

50%

0.529

29.3

1.4

32.2

2.0

0.229

 Hispanic

1960

1301

51%

58%

0.006

42.2

1.8

41.9

2.0

0.902

 NH other

769

491

49%

62%

0.000

33.2

2.2

52.3

3.9

0.000

Education

  < HS

1866

683

49%

53%

0.121

38.2

1.7

43.3

2.9

0.124

 HS or Some College

9385

3970

51%

57%

0.000

30.4

0.6

34.3

1.1

0.002

 College or greater

5096

3054

53%

61%

0.000

29.1

0.7

33.7

1.1

0.000

Age group

 18–25

2874

1224

39%

48%

0.000

21.1

0.9

24.3

1.5

0.063

 26–40

6641

2804

55%

62%

0.000

35.6

0.8

40.9

1.4

0.001

 41–65

6832

3679

56%

62%

0.000

33.9

0.8

37.9

1.1

0.004

Employment status

 Not in labor force

4463

2131

63%

67%

0.019

49.0

1.2

54.9

1.9

0.008

 Working part-time

2107

996

55%

59%

0.227

33.5

1.3

34.6

2.0

0.639

 Working full-time

9777

4580

45%

54%

0.000

22.6

0.5

26.3

0.8

0.000

Marital status

Unmarried

6038

3356

43%

51%

0.000

21.6

0.6

25.9

1.0

0.000

 Married

10,309

4351

56%

63%

0.000

36.7

0.6

41.8

1.1

0.000

Child <18y present

 No children

8805

4317

46%

53%

0.000

24.9

0.5

28.1

0.9

0.002

 1 or more children

7542

3390

60%

68%

0.000

41.7

0.8

48.9

1.3

0.000

  1. NH non-Hispanic, HS high school