Table 6.
Household characteristics associated with convenience-based food pattern scores derived by exploratory factor analysis in a representative sample of 13 131 German households with food purchase data from 2011
| Low-convenience | Semi-convenience | Ready-to-eat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Coefficient | Coefficient | Coefficient |
| Variables referring to the whole household | |||
| Household income | 0·127*** | 0·079* | −0·021 |
| Squared household income | −0·022*** | −0·018** | 0·000 |
| No. of persons in the household | 0·196*** | 0·387*** | −0·020 |
| Reference=multi-person household | |||
| Single household, male | −0·585*** | 0·186*** | 0·129** |
| Single household, female | −0·532*** | 0·146*** | −0·301*** |
| No. of children aged 0–6 years | −0·238*** | −0·260*** | −0·046 |
| No. of children aged 7–13 years | −0·171*** | 0·089*** | −0·032 |
| No. of children aged 14–17 years | −0·168*** | 0·291*** | −0·070 |
| Variables referring to the head of the household | |||
| Reference=medium education | |||
| Lower education | 0·006 | 0·131*** | −0·074** |
| Higher education | 0·047* | −0·045* | 0·028 |
| Variables referring to the person responsible for the food purchases | |||
| Age | 0·022*** | −0·010*** | 0·014*** |
| Reference=not active in the labour market | |||
| Working part-time | −0·052* | 0·037 | −0·011 |
| Working full-time | −0·156*** | −0·038 | 0·096** |
| Reference=low price awareness | |||
| High price awareness | 0·040* | 0·145*** | 0·024 |
| Oriented towards dietary guidelines† | 0·109*** | −0·113*** | −0·065*** |
| Oriented towards supplements/fortified foods† | −0·126*** | 0·046*** | 0·121*** |
| Constant | −1·446*** | −0·513*** | −0·560*** |
| R ² (adjusted) | 0·2853 | 0·3181 | 0·0658 |
*P < 0·05, **P < 0·01, ***P < 0·001.
†
Factor score resulted from the factor analysis shown in the online supplementary material, Supplemental Table 1.