Table 4.
Beverage Classification | Per Capita Income Area | Ne | Mean Price ($) ± SD | Median Price ($) | Interquartile Range | Mean Difference (Lower - Higher Per Capita Income Areas) |
Healthy Beveragesa | Higher Per Capita Income Areasc | 217 | 1.74 ± 0.85f | 1.62 | 1.01 | |
Lower Per Capita Income Areasd | 184 | 1.79 ± 0.88g | 1.69 | 1.16 | 0.05 (95% CI -0.12, 0.22)h | |
Unhealthy Beveragesb | Higher Per Capita Income Areasc | 271 | 1.20 ± 0.38f | 1.22 | 0.59 | |
Lower Per Capita Income Areasd | 218 | 1.17 ± 0.39g | 1.09 | 0.63 | 0.03 (95% CI -0.03, 0.10)i |
Healthy beverages: milk, orange juice, unsweetened tea, unsweetened coffee, diet soda (water excluded).
Unhealthy beverages: regular soda, fruit drinks, sports drinks, sweetened tea, flavored water (sweetened coffee and energy drinks excluded).
Higher per capita income areas: Hawai‘i Kai and Manoa.
Lower per capita income areas: Waimanalo and Wai‘anae.
N represents the number of beverage prices recorded.
The difference between the higher per capita income areas' healthy and unhealthy beverages' mean prices per 20 ounces is statistically significant (P<.001).
The difference between the lower per capita income areas' healthy and unhealthy beverages' mean prices per 20 ounces is statistically significant (P<.001).
The difference between the higher per capita income areas' and lower per capita income areas' healthy beverages' mean prices per 20 ounces is not statistically significant (P=.53).
The difference between the higher per capita income areas' and lower per capita income areas' unhealthy beverages' mean prices per 20 ounces is not statistically significant (P=.34).