Table 4.
Ordered probit results for fruit or vegetable consumption† in nine countries of the former Soviet Union, without and with community determinants
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables | Fruit | Vegetables‡ | Fruit‡ | |||||
| Coefficient | se | Coefficient | se | Coefficient | se | Coefficient | se | |
| Good diet not important | −0·071 | 0·103 | 0·032 | 0·106 | 0·265 | 0·363 | 0·072 | 0·293 |
| Age | −0·002*** | 0·001 | −0·004*** | 0·001 | −0·002 | 0·002 | −0·004** | 0·002 |
| Female | 0·073*** | 0·017 | 0·111*** | 0·017 | −0·003 | 0·053 | 0·091 | 0·060 |
| Primary education | −0·226*** | 0·035 | −0·226*** | 0·036 | −0·079 | 0·099 | −0·166 | 0·112 |
| Secondary education | −0·147*** | 0·022 | −0·185*** | 0·022 | −0·155** | 0·065 | −0·180*** | 0·069 |
| Good economic situation | 0·186*** | 0·029 | 0·298*** | 0·028 | 0·219*** | 0·078 | 0·370*** | 0·070 |
| Household size | 0·002 | 0·006 | 0·005 | 0·007 | 0·004 | 0·023 | 0·010 | 0·017 |
| Married | 0·060*** | 0·019 | 0·066*** | 0·019 | 0·057 | 0·062 | 0·043 | 0·060 |
| Village | −0·077** | 0·038 | −0·209*** | 0·035 | 0·066 | 0·120 | 0·022 | 0·115 |
| Capital | 0·074 | 0·049 | 0·108** | 0·047 | 0·318** | 0·161 | 0·250* | 0·144 |
| Asset2 | 0·084*** | 0·028 | 0·173*** | 0·029 | 0·099 | 0·084 | 0·216** | 0·085 |
| Asset3 | 0·170*** | 0·03 | 0·279*** | 0·031 | 0·149 | 0·092 | 0·202** | 0·093 |
| Asset4 | 0·334*** | 0·032 | 0·390*** | 0·033 | 0·347*** | 0·094 | 0·418*** | 0·102 |
| No. of food adverts | – | – | – | – | 0·049 | 0·039 | −0·030 | 0·032 |
| No. of snack adverts | – | – | – | – | −0·037 | 0·026 | 0·007 | 0·023 |
| No. of soft drink adverts | – | – | – | – | 0·033 | 0·028 | 0·007 | 0·021 |
| No. of juice adverts | – | – | – | – | −0·007 | 0·017 | 0·021 | 0·014 |
| No. of shops selling sweets and crisps | – | – | – | – | −0·003 | 0·016 | −0·012 | 0·011 |
| No. of shops selling fruit and vegetables | – | – | – | – | 0·009 | 0·02 | 0·022 | 0·014 |
| Number of local food restaurants | – | – | – | – | 0·009 | 0·016 | −0·017 | 0·013 |
| Easy walk to fast food outlet | – | – | – | – | −0·097 | 0·103 | −0·011 | 0·099 |
| Observations | 17 395 | 17 372 | 1692 | 1685 | ||||
Source: Health in Times of Transition HITT data set, 2010.
Original parameters are presented. Cluster-robust standard errors are presented.
*Significant at 10 % level; **significant at 5 % level; ***significant at 1 % level.
The outcome variable range is from 1=less than once weekly to 4=daily/almost daily.
Specifications include the following community control variables: dummy variables for living in communities where garbage is collected by authorities from all homes; for living in communities where all homes have a cold water supply; for living in communities where all homes have a central heating system; and for living in communities where there are no derelict homes present.