Table 3.
Average weekly expenditure on fresh* foods, fruits and vegetables (F&V) and fish, and amount and number of packs of fresh foods, F&V and fish bought, per adult equivalent, according to urban–rural classification (UR6 1–6), by 2576 Scottish households of the Kantar Worldpanel, 26 December 2011–23 December 2012
| UR6 1 | UR6 2 | UR6 3 | UR6 4 | UR6 5 | UR6 6 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large urban areas | Other urban areas | Accessible small towns | Remote small towns | Accessible rural | Remote rural | P | P (linear | |||||||
| Mean | 95 % CI | Mean | 95 % CI | Mean | 95 % CI | Mean | 95 % CI | Mean | 95 % CI | Mean | 95 % CI | (ANOVA) | trend) | |
| Fresh foods | ||||||||||||||
| Expenditure (£/adult equivalent) | 4·60 | 4·48, 4·71 | 4·33 | 4·22, 4·45 | 4·32 | 4·18, 4·45 | 4·24 | 4·12, 4·35 | 4·78 | 4·62, 4·94 | 4·81 | 4·65, 4·98 | <0·001 | <0·001 |
| Amount (kg/adult equivalent) | 2·1 | 2·1, 2·2 | 2·1 | 2·1, 2·2 | 2·1 | 2, 2·1 | 2·2 | 2·1, 2·2 | 2·3 | 2·3, 2·4 | 2·4 | 2·3, 2·4 | <0·001 | <0·001 |
| No. of packs/adult equivalent | 5·0 | 4·9, 5·1 | 4·6 | 4·4, 4·7 | 4·5 | 4·4, 4·7 | 4·5 | 4·4, 4·7 | 5·0 | 4·9, 5·2 | 5·0 | 4·9, 5·2 | <0·001 | 0·003 |
| F&V | ||||||||||||||
| Expenditure (£/adult equivalent) | 3·25 | 3·17, 3·32 | 3·01 | 2·94, 3·08 | 3·09 | 2·99, 3·19 | 3·09 | 2·99, 3·19 | 3·42 | 3·31, 3·53 | 3·53 | 3·4, 3·65 | <0·001 | <0·001 |
| Amount (kg/adult equivalent) | 1·8 | 1·8, 1·8 | 1·8 | 1·7, 1·8 | 1·8 | 1·7, 1·8 | 1·8 | 1·8, 1·9 | 2·0 | 1·9, 2·0 | 2·0 | 2·0, 2·1 | <0·001 | <0·001 |
| No. of packs/adult equivalent | 4·4 | 4·4, 4·5 | 4·1 | 4·0, 4·2 | 4·1 | 3·9, 4·2 | 4·1 | 4·0, 4·2 | 4·6 | 4·5, 4·7 | 4·5 | 4·4, 4·7 | <0·001 | <0·001 |
| Expenditure on fruit:vegetables | 1:1·2 | 1:1·2 | 1:1·2 | 1:1·3 | 1:1·2 | 1:1·2 | ||||||||
| Amount fruit:vegetables bought | 1:1·4 | 1:1·4 | 1:1·5 | 1:1·6 | 1:1·5 | 1:1·6 | ||||||||
| Fish | ||||||||||||||
| Expenditure (£/adult equivalent) | 0·33 | 0·31, 0·35 | 0·28 | 0·27, 0·30 | 0·31 | 0·29, 0·33 | 0·23 | 0·21, 0·26 | 0·30 | 0·28, 0·32 | 0·31 | 0·29, 0·34 | <0·001 | 0·230 |
| Amount (g/adult equivalent) | 33·1 | 31·4, 34·8 | 28·1 | 26·9, 29·4 | 31·5 | 29·1, 33·9 | 24·3 | 21·9, 26·6 | 31·6 | 29·7, 33·4 | 31·2 | 28·7, 33·6 | <0·001 | 0·470 |
| No. of packs/adult equivalent | 0·12 | 0·11, 0·12 | 0·09 | 0·09, 0·10 | 0·10 | 0·09, 0·11 | 0·09 | 0·08, 0·09 | 0·10 | 0·09, 0·10 | 0·10 | 0·09, 0·11 | <0·001 | 0·020 |
| Expenditure on white fish:oily fish:shellfish:other fish | 8:10:4:1 | 10:13:7:1 | 13:13:7:1 | 11:16:10:1 | 7:8:4:1 | 3:6:3:1 | ||||||||
| Amount of white fish:oily fish:shellfish:other fish bought | 7:8:4:1 | 9:9:5:1 | 11:11:6:1 | 12:10:7:1 | 7:5:3:1 | 13:5:3:1 | ||||||||
*
Some ‘fresh to frozen’ products were included in the analysis where freezing was considered an essential part of harvesting and where the nutritional quality of these foods is considered similar to the unfrozen equivalent.