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Table 2 Food outlets from which pupils report most often or ever purchasing food or drinks at lunchtime

From: Food and drink purchasing habits out of school at lunchtime: a national survey of secondary school pupils in Scotland

 

Most often purchase

Outlets pupils ever purchase food or drinks**

% pupils (n = 262)

% pupils (n = 374)

Deprivation (SIMD quintile)

 

Least deprived (n = 76)

4 (n = 88)

3 (n = 60)

2 (n = 65)

Most deprived (n = 85)

p-value

Supermarkets

25.4

41.1

42.7

50.1

43.6

33.8

35.6

0.285

Sandwich shop or bakery

19.3

42.4

48.7

49.6

38.6

42.6

33.4

0.250

Takeaways, fast food, chip shops

17.2

36.5

33.8

29.0

31.1

46.6

41.2

0.133

Newsagents, sweet shops

12.2

49.0

42.6

46.3

37.7

53.1

60.2

0.083

Grocery or corner shops

8.6

27.8

25.5

21.3

30.4

37.3

27.0

0.271

Cafe, coffee shops, restaurants

5.9

15.0

16.5

9.2

22.0

18.1

12.6

0.278

Burger, chip or ice cream van

4.3

16.3

10.9

11.6

14.1

16.8

25.7

0.066

Garage, petrol station

2.2

12.0

9.8

10.3

19.6

19.2

5.5

0.055

Other*

5.0

9.1

10.0

5.1

11.2

10.7

9.6

0.739

  1. *Includes sport centre, healthy food van, pharmacy, post office, **pupils could report more than one place