Socio-economic and demographic factors associated with snacking behavior in a large sample of French adults

Table 1 Characteristics of participants in the NutriNet Santé Study included in the present study (N = 104,183; 23,491 men and 84,692 women)^a

		Men (N = 23,491) % or mean (SD)	Women (N = 84,692) % or mean (SD)	P- value for chi-square or student t test analysis
Age class	≤30y	17.8	28.5	< 0.0001
	31-45	28.2	31.0
	46-60	27.9	29.0
	>60y	26.1	11.5
Presence of children in the household	No child in the household	70.9	64.4	< 0.0001
Presence of children in the household	At least one child in the household	29.1	35.6
Educational level	Postgraduate level	38.4	31.3	< 0.0001
	Undergraduate level	24.6	32.3
	Secondary school	33.5	33.7
	Primary school	3.5	2.7
Household income per consumption unit	> 2700 euros	31.5	20.6	< 0.0001
	1800-2700 euros	25.2	22.2
	1200-1800 euros	23.1	25.0
	< 1200 euros	13.1	19.0
	Unwilling to declare	7.1	13.2
Occupation	Managerial staff	50.0	29.7	< 0.0001
	Self-employed	5.3	3.3
	Intermediate profession	22.8	26.7
	Employee	14.2	34.0
	Manual worker	5.3	1.9
	Never employed	2.4	4.4

^aData used in the analysis were collected for each participant at inclusion in the cohort

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