Table 3.
Relative importance of child background characteristics in explaining EDSF and EDD consumption, children aged 7–12 years, Dutch National Food Consumption Survey 2007–2010
| EDSF events (number/d, n 860) | Energy intake from EDSF (kJ/d, n 852) | EDD consumption (ml/d, n 852) | Energy intake from EDD (kJ/d, n 847) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | P value | β | P value | β | P value | β | P value | |
| Age | 0·08 | 0·03 | 0·17 | <0·01 | ||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Boys (reference) | ||||||||
| Girls | ||||||||
| BMI | ||||||||
| Underweight | −0·10 | <0·01 | ||||||
| Normal weight (reference) | ||||||||
| Overweight | −0·05 | 0·16 | ||||||
| Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Native Dutch (reference) | ||||||||
| Western immigrant | ||||||||
| Non-Western immigrant | ||||||||
| Household income | ||||||||
| Low (reference) | ||||||||
| Intermediate | ||||||||
| High | ||||||||
| Degree of urbanization | ||||||||
| Low (reference) | ||||||||
| Intermediate | −0·07 | 0·05 | ||||||
| High | −0·11 | <0·01 | ||||||
| Educational level mother | ||||||||
| Low (reference) | ||||||||
| Intermediate | 0·03 | 0·39 | −0·04 | 0·36 | −0·08 | 0·04 | ||
| High | −0·12 | <0·01 | −0·10 | <0·01 | −0·17 | <0·01 | ||
| Educational level father | ||||||||
| Low (reference) | ||||||||
| Intermediate | ||||||||
| High | ||||||||
| Employment of mother | ||||||||
| Employed (reference) | ||||||||
| Non-employed | −0·09 | 0·01 | ||||||
| Employment of father | ||||||||
| Employed (reference) | ||||||||
| Non-employed | ||||||||
| Household size | ||||||||
| 2 | −0·03 | 0·44 | <0·01 | 0·99 | ||||
| 3 | 0·07 | 0·07 | 0·09 | 0·03 | ||||
| 4 | 0·08 | 0·05 | 0·09 | 0·02 | ||||
| ≥5 (reference) | ||||||||
| R 2 | 0·02 | 0·04 | 0·02 | 0·05 | ||||
EDSF, energy-dense snack food; EDD, energy-dense drink.
Analyses were weighted for small deviations in sociodemographic characteristics, day of the week and season of data collection.