Table 3.
Parental reports of beverage consumption during the previous day for children under 10 years of age* by adults participating in self-administered intercept surveys outside retail food outlets in Mississippi and Alabama, USA, August–November 2016
| Children aged 0–5 years | Children aged 6–9 years | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys (n 954) | Girls (n 1097) | P value | Boys (n 932) | Girls (n 1044) | P value | |
| Mean age (years) | 2·9 | 3·0 | 0·06 | 7·5 | 7·5 | 0·99 |
| Frequency of consuming SSB (%) | ||||||
| Every day | 23·7 | 23·3 | 0·60 | 27·7 | 26·5 | 0·40 |
| A few times per week | 32·6 | 31·9 | 35·4 | 35·0 | ||
| Once per week | 15·7 | 15·0 | 17·9 | 16·7 | ||
| Twice per month | 2·3 | 3·5 | 4·0 | 4·6 | ||
| Once per month | 4·1 | 5·4 | 4·1 | 4·3 | ||
| Less than once per month | 6·1 | 6·3 | 4·8 | 7·3 | ||
| Never | 15·5 | 14·6 | 6·2 | 5·8 | ||
| Previous day consumption (%) | ||||||
| Any sugar beverage | 58·7 | 59·7 | 0·65 | 69·0 | 67·4 | 0·45 |
| ≥2 cans of SSB | 21·4 | 23·7 | 0·22 | 30·0 | 27·8 | 0·29 |
| ≥3 cans of SSB | 5·5 | 7·9 | 0·03 | 7·7 | 5·8 | 0·11 |
| Any 100 % fruit juice | 81·7 | 82·2 | 0·77 | 81·7 | 81·1 | 0·74 |
| ≥2 cans of fruit juice | 49·6 | 50·1 | 0·85 | 54·8 | 53·5 | 0·59 |
| Any tap water | 65·6 | 65·3 | 0·87 | 68·2 | 66·6 | 0·46 |
| ≥2 cups of tap water | 31·9 | 34·0 | 0·30 | 36·0 | 37·3 | 0·56 |
| Any bottled water | 79·7 | 77·0 | 0·14 | 80·8 | 86·0 | 0·002 |
| ≥2 bottles of water | 37·3 | 35·3 | 0·36 | 47·9 | 46·5 | 0·53 |
SSB, sugar-sweetened beverage.
*
Binary variables (percentages) were tested by two-sample z tests. Numerical variables (means) were tested by two-sample t tests with equal variance. Frequency of SSB consumption was tested using χ2 tests.