Table 3.
Availability, price, variety and quality basket scores by area-level SEP, south-east Queensland, August–September 2009
| Low SEP | Mid SEP | High SEP | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (2 geographic areas) | (1 geographic area) | (2 geographic areas) | Test statistics | ||||||
| Median | Range | Median | Range | Median | Range | χ 2 | df | P value*,† | |
| Availability | |||||||||
| Fruit basket | 14·50 | 10·00–15·00 | 15·00 | 13·00–15·00 | 13·00 | 13·00–15·00 | 0·764 | 2 (n 15) | 0·682* |
| Vegetable basket | 17·50 | 17·00–18·00 | 18·00 | 18·00–18·00 | 18·00 | 18·00–18·00 | 5·250 | 2 (n 15) | 0·720* |
| F&V basket | 32·00 | 27·00–33·00 | 33·00 | 31·00–33·00 | 33·00 | 31·00–33·00 | 1·672 | 2 (n 15) | 0·433* |
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | F | df | ||
| Price ($AUD) | |||||||||
| Fruit basket‡ | 45·20 | 38·31, 53·35 | 52·27 | 40·72, 67·11 | 56·61 | 42·09, 76·15 | 1·707 | 2 (n 12) | 0·223† |
| Vegetable basket | 54·01 | 12·57 | 60·46 | 5·22 | 70·17 | 20·08 | 1·658 | 2 (n 12) | 0·231† |
| F&V basket‡ | 98·15 | 80·24, 120·05 | 112·74 | 95·26, 133·42 | 125·57 | 97·38, 161·94 | 2·252 | 2 (n 12) | 0·148† |
| Variety | |||||||||
| Fruit basket | 23·80 | 3·86 | 27·45 | 3·09 | 26·59 | 5·16 | 0·941 | 2 (n 12) | 0·417† |
| Vegetable basket | 37·99 | 9·12 | 36·67 | 6·66 | 43·12 | 7·90 | 0·847 | 2 (n 12) | 0·453† |
| F&V basket | 61·79 | 11·53 | 64·12 | 9·70 | 69·70 | 11·07 | 0·797 | 2 (n 12) | 0·473† |
| Quality | |||||||||
| Fruit basket | 36·75 | 5·87 | 41·00 | 4·00 | 40·88 | 3·22 | 1·467 | 2 (n 12) | 0·269† |
| Vegetable basket | 44·62 | 7·32 | 49·00 | 2·65 | 50·50 | 2·43 | 2·093 | 2 (n 12) | 0·166† |
| F&V basket | 81·37 | 12·45 | 90·00 | 1·73 | 91·38 | 4·48 | 2·263 | 2 (n 12) | 0·147† |
SEP, socio-economic position; F&V, fruit and vegetable.
*Kruskal–Wallis test.
†ANOVA.
‡Natural log transformation performed; anti-log of the log scale mean (geometric mean) and 95 % CI are presented.