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. 2017 Aug 9;20(15):2660–2669. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017001641

Table 2.

Spearman correlatuion coefficients derived from e-12HR and the short paper FFQ, overall and according to sociodemographic and health-related behaviour strata; university students and employees over the age of 18 years, Andalusia, Spain, Southern Europe, October 2014 to December 2016

Sociodemographic strata
Age group (years) Gender Occupation
Comparison All <25 ≥25 Female Male Student Employee
Fruit 0·81 0·83 0·79 0·78 0·86 0·81 0·81
Vegetables 0·76 0·86 0·63 0·77 0·75 0·84 0·61
Legumes 0·55 0·60 0·49 0·52 0·60 0·57 0·51
Chicken/turkey 0·65 0·70 0·52 0·67 0·61 0·67 0·53
Fish 0·62 0·75 0·47 0·64 0·61 0·72 0·43
Red meat 0·68 0·71 0·66 0·63 0·67 0·69 0·68
Soft drinks 0·76 0·79 0·71 0·76 0·76 0·77 0·75
Sweets 0·69 0·78 0·57 0·67 0·73 0·73 0·60
Prepared foods 0·61 0·65 0·56 0·53 0·73 0·61 0·60
Alcoholic beverages 0·82 0·86 0·78 0·76 0·80 0·85 0·77
Mean 0·70 0·75 0·62 0·67 0·71 0·73 0·63
Health-related behaviour strata
Smoking Physical activity (min/week) BMI (kg/m2)
Comparison All No Yes ≥150 <150 <25 ≥25
Fruit 0·81 0·82 0·72 0·78 0·81 0·78 0·87
Vegetables 0·76 0·77 0·72 0·83 0·72 0·74 0·79
Legumes 0·55 0·54 0·54 0·65 0·49 0·55 0·54
Chicken/turkey 0·65 0·63 0·77 0·68 0·65 0·70 0·53
Fish 0·62 0·61 0·66 0·53 0·68 0·60 0·67
Red meat 0·68 0·65 0·77 0·80 0·63 0·68 0·68
Soft drinks 0·76 0·73 0·84 0·78 0·75 0·76 0·75
Sweets 0·69 0·72 0·57 0·78 0·64 0·70 0·67
Prepared foods 0·61 0·62 0·56 0·63 0·60 0·60 0·62
Alcoholic beverages 0·82 0·78 0·80 0·80 0·83 0·84 0·77
Mean 0·70 0·69 0·70 0·73 0·68 0·70 0·69

e-12HR, electronic 12-h dietary recall.

P<0·001 for all data.