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Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of primary food providers and children (n = 225)

From: Understanding the influence of physical resources and social supports on primary food providers’ snack food provision: a discrete choice experiment

Characteristic

Parent

Characteristic

Child

Age, years (mean, SD)

35.3 (3.8)

Age, years (mean, SD)

5.2 (1.3)

Sex (%, count)

 

Sex (%, count)

 

 Male

0.4 (1)

Male

49.3 (111)

 Female

99.6 (224)

Female

50.7 (114)

Weight statusa (%, count)

 

Weight status (%, count)

 

 Underweight

1.8 (4)

Underweight

13.9 (31)

 Healthy weight

39.6 (86)

Healthy weight

55.6 (124)

 Overweight

33.2 (72)

Overweight

15.2 (34)

 Obesity

25.3 (55)

Obesity

15.2 (34)

Family structure (%, count)

 

Weight and/or height measured in past 6 months (%, count)

73.8 (166)

 Couple with a child

13.8 (31)

 Couple with children

80.9 (182)

 One parent family with a child

0.9 (2)

 One parent family with children

1.8 (4)

 Other family type

2.7 (6)

SEIFAb Index of Relative Advantage and Disadvantage(%, count)

 

Frequency of social occasions in past week (median, IQR)

5 (4)

 Lower (deciles 1 to 5)

40.4 (91)

Frequency of select celebratory occasions in past week (median, IQR)

0 (1)

 Higher (deciles 6 to 10)

59.1 (133)

  

Parent education (%, count)

 Completed high school or less

6.7 (15)

  

 Tech or trade

20.9 (47)

  

 Tertiary degree

35.6 (80)

  

 Postgraduate degree

36.9 (83)

  

Parent employment (%, count)

 Employed full time

18.2 (41)

  

 Employed part time

51.6 (116)

  

 Not working / homemaker

30.2 (68)

  

Ancestryc (%, count)

 Australian

48.0 (108)

  

 English

45.8 (103)

  

 Other

26.6 (60)

  

 Scottish

14.2 (32)

  

 Irish

13.3 (30)

  

 German

6.2 (14)

  

 Italian

5.3 (12)

  
  1. aMissing anthropometric responses for primary food providers (n = 8) and for children (n = 2)
  2. bSEIFA, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas; a lower value is reflective of greater disadvantage. Missing SEIFA (n = 1)
  3. cParticipants could select up to two ancestries, therefore percentages exceed 100