Table 5.

Multivariable associations between sociodemographic and dietary variables and sugar-sweetened beverage tax perception among a nationally representative sub-sample (largest sample n 1996) from the Nutrinet-Santé cohort study, France, 2012: perception of the health impact variables

	Having a tax on sweetened beverages would help improve population health (n 1995)
	Agree		Neither
	OR	95 % CI	OR	95 % CI	P
Sex
Women	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.
Men	1·10	0·89, 1·37	1·16	0·87, 1·54	0·557
Age
18–25 years	0·89	0·45, 1·78	1·12	0·48, 2·59
26–45 years	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.
46–65 years	1·31	1·00, 1·73	1·16	0·80, 1·67
>65 years	3·01	2·00, 4·52	1·63	0·96, 2·78	<0·001
Level of education
No diploma and primary	0·47	0·28, 0·78	0·79	0·41, 1·51
Secondary	0·71	0·56, 0·90	1·14	0·83, 1·55
Post-secondary graduate	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.	0·0004
Income per household unit
<900 €/month	0·98	0·66, 1·44	1·03	0·63, 1·69
900–2700 €/month	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.
>2700 €/month	1·21	0·91, 1·62	0·89	0·60, 1·31
Refuses to answer	0·99	0·68, 1·44	0·99	0·61, 1·60	0·6092
Household composition
No children	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.
One or more children (aged 0–13 years)	0·72	0·53, 0·97	0·59	0·38, 0·89
One or more adolescents (aged 14–18 years)	0·89	0·53, 1·50	0·81	0·41, 1·62
Children of both age categories	0·99	0·53, 1·86	1·18	0·55, 2·53	0·2062
Sweetened beverage consumption
Tertile 1	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.
Tertile 2	0·75	0·58, 0·99	0·90	0·63, 1·28
Tertile 3	0·67	0·51, 0·88	0·76	0·53, 1·09	0·0546
Artificially sweetened beverages
Non-consumer	1·00	Ref.	1·00	Ref.
Consumer	0·87	0·69, 1·09	0·93	0·69, 1·27	0·4723

Ref., referent category.

Results from multivariable multinomial regression with all variables included in the model.