Table 2.

Relationship between frequency of eating family meals in past school week and BMI

	Mean BMI	CI1	Bivariate p-value	β2	SE3	Multivariate p-value4
Frequency of family meals
None	26.13	(25.4,26.8)		0.0	0.0
1–2 days	26.67	(26.2,27.2)		0.58	0.4
3–4 days	25.91	(25.5,26.3)		-0.05	0.4
Everyday	25.88	(25.5,26.2)	0.045	0.01	0.4	0.22

¹ 95% Confidence interval for the mean

² β coefficient for multivariate model examining age and gender simultaneously

³ Standard error for β coefficient

⁴ P-value for multivariate model examining age and gender simultaneously