Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the study sample, men (n 1914) and women (n 1603) separately; 2007–2008 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

	Men			Women
Variable	Mean	sd	Range	Mean	sd	Range
Meal planning/preparing
Main meal planner/preparer	0·06	–	0–1	0·40	–	0–1
Shared meal planning/preparing	0·54	–	0–1	0·56	–	0–1
No meal planning/preparing	0·40	–	0–1	0·04	–	0–1
Food shopping
Main food shopper	0·07	–	0–1	0·36	–	0–1
Shared food shopping	0·60	–	0–1	0·57	–	0–1
No food shopping	0·33	–	0–1	0·06	–	0–1
Age (years)	52·57	16·63	20–80	49·12	16·04	20–80
Race/ethnicity
White	0·49	–	0–1	0·49	–	0–1
Black	0·17	–	0–1	0·14	–	0–1
Hispanic	0·29	–	0–1	0·33	–	0–1
Other	0·05	–	0–1	0·04	–	0–1
Marital status
Married	0·88	–	0–1	0·89	–	0–1
Living with partner	0·12	–	0–1	0·11	–	0–1
Household size	3·36	1·52	2–7	3·43	1·53	2–7
Education
High school or less	0·56	–	0–1	0·53	–	0–1
Some college or more	0·44	–	0–1	0·47	–	0–1
Family income-to-poverty ratio	2·76	1·62	0–5	2·79	1·61	0–5