Association of food security status with overweight and dietary intake: exploration of White British and Pakistani-origin families in the Born in Bradford cohort

Table 1 Characteristics of White British and Pakistani-origin women by food security status

	White British					Pakistani-origin
	Food secure		Food insecure			Food secure		Food insecure
	N	Mean (SD)/ %	N	Mean (SD)/ %	p-value^*	N	Mean (SD)/ %	N	Mean (SD)/ %	p-value^*
Mother’s age (years)	426	27.8 (6.2)	54	25.1 (5.0)	0.0006	583	27.8 (5.0)	41	30.3 (6.1)	0.01
Married/cohabitation status
Married	178	42	15	28	0.1	567	97	38	93	0.1
Cohabiting with partner	158	37	25	46		4	0.7	0	0
Partner, not cohabiting	33	8	3	6		2	0.3	1	2
Single	57	13	11	20		11	2	2	5
Number living in household	55	3.7 (1.1)	10	3.8 (1.5)	0.9	68	5.2 (2.2)	4	7.8 (2.1)	0.02
Mother’s education^a
A-level equivalent or higher	163	38	15	28	0.2	228	39	11	27	0.1
Maximum of 5 GCSEs, unknown, foreign, other	263	62	39	72		353	61	30	73
National IMD
Quintile 1	207	49	35	65	0.2	461	79	37	90	0.4
Quintile 2	99	23	12	22		91	15.5	4	10
Quintile 3	77	18	5	9		29	5	0	0
Quintile 4	25	6	1	2		2	0.3	0	0
Quintile 5	18	4	1	2		1	0.2	0	0
Struggling financially
Yes	117	27	40	74	< 0.0001	180	31	19	46	0.05
No	309	73	14	26		404	69	22	54
Received means-tested benefits
Yes	136	32	32	59	0.0001	265	45	22	54	0.3
No	290	68	22	41		319	55	19	46

IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation (quintile 1 indicates most deprived; quintile 5 indicates least deprived)
^aA-level is equivalent to a United States high school diploma
*χ2 or Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables and Wilcoxon-Mann –Whitney for continuous variables between food security status within ethnic group

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