Table 2.
Perceived availability of healthy food and fruit and vegetable consumption by population characteristics – ELSA-Brasil, 2008–2010
| Characteristics | n | Perceived availability of healthy food | Frequency of fruit consumption | Frequency of vegetable consumption | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better | Worse | > Once/day | Daily | Weekly | Rare | > Once/day | Daily | Weekly | Rare | ||
| Gender | |||||||||||
| Female | 8023 | 56.7 | 43.3 | 27.9 | 45.3 | 17.6 | 9.2 | 16.9 | 51.3 | 20.9 | 10.9 |
| Male | 6726 | 56.2 | 43.8 | 16.1 | 40.3 | 25.7 | 17.9 | 12.2 | 44.0 | 25.9 | 17.9 |
| Education | |||||||||||
| < Elementary | 869 | 58.2 | 41.8 | 19.8 | 36.7 | 21.4 | 22.1 | 14.2 | 32.6 | 29.5 | 23.7 |
| Elementary | 1002 | 55.8 | 44.2 | 18.4 | 38.2 | 23.8 | 19.6 | 13.5 | 35.6 | 28.1 | 22.8 |
| Secondary | 5091 | 54.0 | 46.0 | 18.7 | 42.4 | 23.0 | 16.0 | 13.2 | 42.7 | 26.0 | 18.1 |
| University graduate | 2345 | 53.6 | 46.4 | 20.4 | 45.5 | 22.2 | 11.9 | 13.5 | 49.3 | 24.6 | 12.5 |
| Postgraduate | 5442 | 59.9 | 40.1 | 28.3 | 44.5 | 18.7 | 8.5 | 17.1 | 57.0 | 18.0 | 7.9 |
| Median age (years) | 51.0 | 52.0 | 50.0 | 54.0 | 52.0 | 49.0 | 50.0 | 52.0 | 52.0 | 51.0 | 50.0 |
| Mean per capita income (R$) | 1751.00 | 1847.10 | 1626.22 | 2071.99 | 1808.04 | 1529.64 | 1371.99 | 1856.81 | 1957.76 | 1535.36 | 1290.80 |
| Mean years residence in the neighbourhood | 17.2 | 17.5 | 16.8 | 18.1 | 17.2 | 16.3 | 17.2 | 17.6 | 17.0 | 17.1 | 17.9 |