Table 1. Textual analysis of consultation submissions and WHO’s sugars intake guideline, 2015.
| Document | Total no. of words | No. of unique words | Raw Wordscoresa score (SE) | Martin–Vanberg transformedb Wordscores score |
Rescaled transformed Wordscores scorec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value (SE) | 95% CI | |||||
| Consultation submissions from sugar industry-related organizations | ||||||
| World Sugar Research Organisation | 2703 | 803 | 0.32 (0.01) | 0.03 (0.02) | −0.02 to 0.08 | 0.11 |
| Food Industry Asia | 1146 | 305 | 0.39 (0.01) | 0.35 (0.04) | 0.27 to 0.43 | 0.25 |
| International Food & Beverage Alliance | 709 | 241 | 0.37 (0.01) | 0.29 (0.05) | 0.19 to 0.39 | 0.23 |
| Nestlé | 524 | 222 | 0.27 (0.01) | −0.23 (0.05) | −0.32 to −0.13 | 0.00 |
| Sugar Nutrition UK | 2346 | 442 | 0.35 (0.01) | 0.18 (0.03) | 0.13 to 0.24 | 0.18 |
| Kenniscentrum suiker & voeding | 1958 | 331 | 0.36 (0.01) | 0.22 (0.03) | 0.16 to 0.27 | 0.19 |
| Wirtschaftliche Vereinigung Zucker | 2795 | 453 | 0.35 (0.00) | 0.17 (0.02) | 0.12 to 0.21 | 0.17 |
| Consultation submissions from public health organizations | ||||||
| Centre for Science in the Public Interest | 1400 | 331 | 0.32 (0.01) | −0.01 (0.03) | −0.07 to 0.06 | 0.10 |
| United Kingdom Health Forum | 2539 | 445 | 0.43 (0.01) | 0.55 (0.03) | 0.50 to 0.60 | 0.34 |
| BEUCd | 1468 | 337 | 0.37 (0.01) | 0.24 (0.03) | 0.17 to 0.31 | 0.21 |
| International Baby Food Action Network | 2430 | 456 | 0.34 (0.01) | 0.12 (0.03) | 0.07 to 0.18 | 0.15 |
| El Poder del Consumidore | 849 | 235 | 0.38 (0.01) | 0.30 (0.04) | 0.21 to 0.39 | 0.23 |
| Wemosf | 820 | 335 | 0.68 (0.01) | 1.78 (0.04) | 1.69 to 1.86 | 0.88 |
| World Dental Federation | 1969 | 391 | 0.35 (0.01) | 0.14 (0.03) | 0.08 to 0.20 | 0.16 |
| World Obesity Federation | 173 | 88 | 0.38 (0.02) | 0.30 (0.10) | 0.10 to 0.49 | 0.23 |
| European Public Health Alliance | 1088 | 515 | 0.73 (0.01) | 2.04 (0.04) | 1.97 to 2.12 | 1.00 |
| WHO sugars intake guideline, 2015 | ||||||
| Draft version | 5643 | 537 | 0.38 (0.00) | 0.34 (0.02) | 0.30 to 0.37 | 0.25 |
| Final version | 6447 | 550 | 0.38 (0.00) | 0.32 (0.02) | 0.29 to 0.35 | 0.24 |
CI: confidence interval; SE: standard error; WHO: World Health Organization.
a The Wordscores program calculates scores for documents based on the scores of reference documents by assessing the frequency of words in the documents after words were replaced by their roots and stop words, numbers and symbols were removed.
b The Martin–Vanberg transformation compensates for the tendency for nondiscriminating words to pull scores towards the middle of the scale.
c The Wordscores scores obtained after the Martin–Vanberg transformation were rescaled such that the text from Nestlé had a score of 0 and that from the European Public Health Alliance had a score of 1.
d BEUC is an international European consumers organization.
e El Poder del Consumidor is a Mexican nongovernmental organization.
f Wemos is a Dutch nongovernmental organization.