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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants of the Singapore National Nutrition Survey (2010)

From: Determinants of eating at local and western fast-food venues in an urban Asian population: a mixed methods approach

 

Survey

Survey

Singapore resident population a,b

 

N (%)

Weighted %

%

1647

-

3.7 million

Age (years) c

40 (30–51)

43 (31–54)

37.4

Sex

 Male

817 (49.6)

50.0

49.3

 Female

830 (50.4)

50.0

50.7

Ethnicity

 Chinese

673 (40.9)

74.8

74.1

 Malay

501 (30.4)

14.5

13.4

 Indian

473 (28.7)

10.7

9.2

 Others

0 (0.0)

0.0

3.3

Marital status d

 Never married

416 (25.3)

24.7

32.2

 Married

1130 (68.7)

69.0

59.4

 Widowed/divorced/separated

98 (6.0)

6.3

8.4

Education d

 Primary education or less

277 (16.9)

16.4

22.2

 Secondary

591 (36.0)

29.9

29.1

 Junior college or diploma

353 (21.4)

19.7

20.1

 Degree or professional qualifications

422 (25.7)

34.0

28.6

Employment d

 Employed

1184 (72.0)

73.1

-

 Student

89 (5.4)

4.7

-

 National service

28 (1.7)

1.4

-

 Homemaker/housewife

250 (15.2)

12.4

-

 Retired/employed

93 (5.7)

8.4

-

Monthly household income

  < $2000

386 (23.4)

18.3

22.4

 $2000 - $3999

489 (29.7)

26.3

18.6

 $4000 - $5999

295 (17.9)

16.8

16.4

 $6000 and above

311 (18.9)

25.8

42.8

 Refused/Don’t know

166 (10.1)

12.8

0.0

  1. aCensus of population 2010 statistical release 1: demographic characteristics, education, language and religion, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore, Singapore: 2011
  2. bCensus of population 2010 statistical release 2: households and housing, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore, Singapore: 2011
  3. cValues are median (25th,75th percentile)
  4. dDue to missing data, numbers for these covariates are as follows: marital status (n = 1644), education (n = 1643) and employment (n = 1644)