Table 5.

Percentage of subjects with weak, moderate, or strong healthy eating motivations classified by demographic characteristics

	Population	Weak healthy eating motivation	Moderate healthy eating motivation	Strong healthy eating motivation
	%	%	%	%
Male	49.0	58.1	48.7	37.6
Female	51.0	41.9	51.3	62.4
Age: 18–35	38.3	48.4	36.3	27.5
36–50	30.2	28.0	31.8	31.1
51–64	19.6	15.8	20.4	23.7
65+	11.9	7.8	11.4	17.7
Marital status: Single	34.4	43.1	33.0	24.6
Married	57.9	49.9	58.9	67.2
Widowed/Separated/divorce	7.7	7.0	8.1	8.2
Social class: Prof/Mang/Technical	54.1	46.7	57.2	59.4
Non manual & Skilled	37.1	42.0	33.9	34.8
Semi-skilled/unskilled	8.8	11.2	8.9	5.8
Education: Primary	7.7	8.1	7.4	7.4
Intermediate	19.6	23.8	17	17.0
Secondary	24.2	28.7	24.7	17.9
Tertiary	48.6	39.5	50.8	57.7