Table 3.

Predictors of child food and drink consumption patterns between households with SNAP and WIC v. only WIC benefits; results from the 2014 Survey of Los Angeles County WIC Participants and the Follow-Up Survey, 2014

PRIMARY REGRESSOR: Food assistance programme participation status (ref.: only WIC)†
	Log transformed coefficient‡
MODEL DEPENDENT VARIABLE: Consumption
Model 1B: Fruits (no. of servings/d), n 3734	1·03*
Model 1C: Vegetables (no. of servings/d), n 3760	1·04**
Model 2: Water (no. of times/d), n 3710	1·03
Model 3: Milk – whole, 1 %, 2 % or non-fat (no. of times/d), n 3178	−1·02
Model 4: Non-diet SSB (no. of drinks/d), n 3793	1·07***
Model 5: Sweets or sweetened foods, such as sweetened cereals, fruit bars, pop-tarts, doughnuts, cookies and candies (no. of times/d), n 4188	1·04***

SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; ref., reference category; SSB, sugar-sweetened beverages.

Independent variables used as controls for each model were language of interview, parent education, child age, child gender, parental report of household (family) food security and parental perception of child’s weight status.

*P<0·05, **P<0·01, ***P<0·001.

^†Only survey participants without missing data (including ‘don’t know’/‘refused’) for selected variables were included in the multivariable analyses.

^‡Significance level (P value) was derived using log transformation of the parameter estimate; log transformation was performed due to the skewness of the parameter data.