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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2012 Sep 18;18(6):1292–1299. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.003

Table 3. The availability, variety and quality, and median price of observed food products according to level of LSOA Index of Deprivation (ID).

ID=1
Most deprived
ID=2 ID=3 ID=4 ID=5
Least deprived
p-value
Availability (n (%))
(7 healthy products)
Yes
No
162 (62.6%)
 97 (37.4%)
240 (56.2%)
187 (43.8%)
257 (63.2%)
156 (37.8%)
109 (62.3%)
66 (37.7%)
59 (64.8%)
23 (35.2%)


0.35a
Availability (n (%))
(5 unhealthy products)
Yes
No
152 (82.2%)
33 (17.8%)
257 (84.3%)
48 (15.7%)
254 (86.1%)
41 (13.9%)
104 (83.2%)
21 (16.8%)
59 (90.7%)
6 ( 9.3%)


0.19a
Cheapest price (£/kg)
(7 healthy products)
(median (IQR))
1.99
(1.29, 2.99)
1.89
(1.22, 3.00)
1.96
(1.49, 3.09)
1.96
(1.30, 2.94)
2.06
(1.35, 3.00)

0.44b
Cheapest price (£/kg)
(5 unhealthy products)
(median (IQR))
1.54
(1.00, 4.99)
1.55
(0.99, 4.60)
1.53
(0.99, 5.00)
1.38
(0.99, 3.44)
1.81
(1.03, 5.64)

0.71b
Variety (n (%))
(7 healthy products)
≥3 varieties
1 or 2 varieties
27 (16.7%)
135 (83.3%)
79 (33.2%)
159 (66.8%)
64 (24.9%)
193 (75.1%)
38 (34.9%)
71 (65.1%)
25 (42.4%)
34 (57.6%)


0.001a
Variety (n (%))
(5 unhealthy products)
≥3 varieties
1 or 2 varieties
89 (58.6%)
63 (41.4%)
167 (65.0%)
90 (35.0%)
157 (61.8%)
97 (38.2%)
66 (63.5%)
38 (36.5%)
39 (66.1%)
20 (33.9%)


0.46a
Quality (n (%))
(6 fruit & vegetables)
Good/ medium
Poor
114 (85.1%)
20 (14.9%)
177 (95.7%)
8 (4.3%)
197 (96.1%)
8 (3.9%)
132 (96.4%)
5 (3.6%)


0.003a, c
a

Chi squared test for trend

b

Spearman test for trend

c

ID=4 and ID=5 were merged because of the small number of observations

The number of observations for each variable shown in the table are not equal because of missing data and because quality was only recorded for the six fruit and vegetables. Price was missing for 26 products and variety was missing for two products out of a total of 1653 products recorded as available. Quality was missing for 26 products out of a total of 687 fruit and vegetables recorded as available.