Table 1.

Cohort characteristics by low, medium and high caring for country scores.

	Low (score: 6–12)		Medium (score: 13–18)		High (score: 19–24)
	Mean	Sx	Mean	Sx	Mean	Sx
Number of participants	122	N/a	105	N/a	74	N/a
% Male	61%	N/a	58%	N/a	57%	N/a
Age in years	29.27	10.50	30.84^	10.05	33.79	9.21
Socio-demographics
% Resident in homelands	2.5%^^^	N/a	38.1%^^^	N/a	79.7%	N/a
Mean income level 1	1.50^^^	.52	1.90	.38	1.92	.27
Mean education level 2	3.03	1.05	2.89	.89	2.67	.83
Health behaviours
% Smoker	70%	N/a	75%	N/a	74%	N/a
% Drinks alcohol	30.3%	N/a	37%^	N/a	20.3%	N/a
Physical activity 3	2.84^	.92	3.08^^^	.84	3.5	.61
Takeaway 4	2.26 ***	.66	1.97	.57	1.91	.52
Store Fruit 4	2.40	.74	2.51*	.78	2.25	.54
Store Vegetable 4	2.37	.71	2.57**	.77	2.25	.58
Bush meat 4	3.1^^^	.76	3.52^^^	.74	3.86	.37
Bush fruit and vegetable 4	2.71^^^	.92	3.27^^	.86	3.61	.64
Health outcome
Body Mass Index	23.57	6.30	22.86	5.11	22.01	4.86

Notes: 1: 1 = lowest income, 2 = medium income, 3 = highest income

2: 1 = no formal education, 2 = primary school, 3 = lower secondary, 4 = year ten, 5 = year twelve, 6 = post school qualification

3: 1 = none, 2 = one or

two times a week, 3 = three or four time a week, 4 = more than four times a week 4: 1 = never, 2 = sometimes, 3 = most days, 4 = every day

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001: score is significantly higher than that of the next group

^p < .05, ^^p < .01, ^^^p < .001: score is significantly lower than that of the next group