Household income differences in food sources and food items purchased

Table 1 Per Person Dollars Spent Monthly from Home and Eating Out Sources by Income*

Source	N Receipts	Low	Med	High	P
Home Sources $	1111	80.06	80.09	105.02	.013
Eating Out Sources $	1372	22.77	36.2	55.4	.002
Total $		100.2	115.44	163.48	.001
% of Total $ from Home Sources		73	71	63	.086
% of Total $ from Eating out Sources		27	29	37	.086
Eating out Sources	N Receipts	Low	Med	High	P
Carry out	756	14.17	12.67	20.34	.055
Restaurants	345	5.93	11.52	27.09	.004
Cafeteria (means)	135	0.93	2.18	3.6	.049
Vending (means)	51	0.12	0.11	0.54	.011
Bar/tavern (means)	15	0.79	0.64	1.02	.227
Other eating out (means)	70	3.25	2.71	3.29	.199
% of eating out $ from carry out		54	49	37	.011
Home Sources	N Receipts	Low	Med	High	P
Discount grocery chain	465	48.88	57.59	52.24	.455
Premium grocery chain (means)	163	5.48	26.90	26.16	.037
Wholesale store (means)	48	4.38	2.85	11.34	.024
Farmers market (means)	17	0.41	0.45	1.17	.094
Small grocery (means)	22	0.17	0.36	0.87	.110
Ethnic market (means)	4	0.04	0.16	0.27	.261
Specialty foods (means)	55	1.39	2.06	4.08	.049
Convenience store	199	3.91	2.90	4.25	.239
Gas station (means)	67	0.97	0.49	1.26	.095
Non-food store (means)	43	0.47	1.11	0.31	.296
Unknown store (means)	26	0.26	0.13	0.73	.327
Mail order	2	---	---	---	---
% of home $ from convenience & gas store		10	10	7	.425

*Medians presented unless otherwise indicated by (means). Means are presented when medians are equal to zero due to lower frequency of particular purchase source.

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