Table 2.
Means and se of demographic characteristics by eating pattern over 2 d, adults aged 18 and older
| Not skip breakfast | Skip breakfast | Not skip any meal | Skip one or more meals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | se | Mean | se | Mean | se | Mean | se | |
| Male | 47·52 | 0·49 | 50·57 | 0·88 | 47·43 | 0·64 | 49·51 | 0·60 |
| Age (years) | 49·53 | 0·31 | 41·62 | 0·37 | 49·84 | 0·34 | 44·29 | 0·36 |
| Married or living with partner | 65·66 | 0·85 | 57·46 | 1·22 | 68·72 | 0·91 | 58·16 | 1·07 |
| Hispanic | 13·57 | 1·08 | 15·55 | 1·26 | 11·10 | 0·93 | 16·66 | 1·32 |
| Non-Hispanic, White | 69·70 | 1·53 | 62·26 | 1·85 | 74·52 | 1·36 | 61·39 | 1·85 |
| Non-Hispanic, Black | 9·62 | 0·72 | 14·69 | 1·19 | 6·78 | 0·51 | 14·95 | 1·14 |
| Less than high school | 14·60 | 0·73 | 18·72 | 0·95 | 11·99 | 0·74 | 19·19 | 0·86 |
| High school graduate or GED | 20·43 | 0·63 | 25·10 | 0·88 | 19·09 | 0·73 | 24·40 | 0·76 |
| Some college or AA degree | 30·48 | 0·78 | 34·00 | 0·87 | 29·73 | 0·93 | 33·27 | 0·72 |
| College graduate or above | 34·49 | 1·16 | 22·18 | 1·08 | 39·19 | 1·30 | 23·14 | 1·04 |
| Observations | 14 943 | 8545 | 9249 | 14 239 | ||||
GED, General Education Development. All meals are defined as breakfast, lunch and dinner. In boldface, if the difference between the mean of those who skip the meal and the mean of those who do not skip the meal is statistically different from zero (P < 0.1). se account for complex survey design. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dietary intake day 2 weights (wtdr2d) were used to compute nationally representative estimates. Due to some missing responses, the total number of observations for married is 22 306 and for level of education is 22 295.
Source: Authors’ calculations using data from the 2007–2016 NHANES and https://epi.grants.cancer.gov/hei/developing.html.