Table 4.
Mean natural log-transformed factor scores for each factor by characteristics of study participants: Yup'ik people (n 358) aged ≥18 years, south-west Alaska, USA, September 2009–2011
| Processed foods | Fruits and vegetables | Subsistence foods | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Factor 1) | (Factor 2) | (Factor 3) | ||||||||
| n | Mean | P* | P† | Mean | P* | P† | Mean | P* | P† | |
| Community location | ||||||||||
| Coastal | 208 | −0·064 | 0·081 | 0·032 | −0·227 | <0·001 | <0·001 | 0·245 | <0·001 | <0·001 |
| Inland | 150 | 0·089 | 0·315 | −0·340 | ||||||
| Age | ||||||||||
| Younger (<41·6 years) | 186 | 0·412 | <0·001 | <0·001 | −0·007 | 0·870 | 0·897 | −0·089 | 0·044 | 0·374 |
| Older (≥41·6 years) | 172 | −0·445 | 0·007 | 0·097 | ||||||
| Sex | ||||||||||
| Female | 209 | −0·052 | 0·157 | 0·727 | 0·018 | 0·632 | 0·495 | −0·033 | 0·400 | 0·286 |
| Male | 149 | 0·074 | −0·025 | 0·046 | ||||||
| Kass'aq (white) lifestyle‡ | ||||||||||
| Not at all/some | 299 | −0·064 | 0·001 | <0·001 | −0·011 | 0·488 | 0·059 | 0·009 | 0·702 | 0·507 |
| A lot | 56 | 0·324 | 0·083 | −0·037 | ||||||
| Yup'ik lifestyle‡ | ||||||||||
| Not at all/some | 173 | 0·301 | <0·001 | <0·001 | −0·042 | 0·326 | 0·419 | −0·103 | 0·025 | 0·042 |
| A lot | 183 | −0·286 | 0·044 | 0·104 | ||||||
*Unadjusted t test assuming unequal variance; for Factor 3 the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test P values were similar to t test P values.
†Adjusted for the other study participant characteristics using a multivariate linear regression model, n 354 due to missing values.
‡Sample sizes vary due to missing values.