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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of sample (N = 14,024) for generation of Chinese urbanized diet indices, CHNS, 2015

From: Characterizing the urban diet: development of an urbanized diet index

Age (years) – mean (std)

51.45 (15.12)

Female – N (%)

8050 (57.40)

Urbanization Indexa– mean (std)

72.52 (17.73)

Educational Attainment – N (%)

 Completed no School

1045 (7.45)

 Completed some or all of Primary School

3360 (23.96)

 Completed some Post-Primary School

7583 (54.07)

 Completed College

2036 (14.52)

Income b – mean (std)

24.19 (36.30)

Region – N (%)

 North

1587 (11.32)

 Central

4645 (33.12)

 South

4939 (35.22)

 Megacities

2853 (20.34)

  1. aOverall urbanization index is a validated multicomponent measure of urbanization in the CHNS (Jones-Smith & Popkin, 2010)
  2. bIncome is gross per capita household income, in thousands of Yuan