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. 2016 Oct 31;8(11):689. doi: 10.3390/nu8110689

Table 1.

Demographic, socio-economic, and behavioural variables by tertile of drinking water intake (g/day) and by sex 1.

Men Women
Tertile of Drinking Water Intake Tertile of Drinking Water Intake
All ≤474 mL/Day 474–879 mL/Day >879 mL/Day p All ≤500 mL/Day 500–932 mL/Day >934 mL/Day p
n 776 275 259 242 1142 405 365
Mean ± SD Mean ± SD
Age (years) 49.0 ± 17.8 50.5 ± 16.9 48.7 ± 19.1 47.9 ± 17.2 0.333 45.2 ± 15.0 45.4 ± 15.1 45.1 ± 15.4 45.0 ± 14.6 0.977
(%) (%)
Socio-occupational status 0.001 0.009
Low 20.4 19.1 18.1 23.9 10.1 6.9 10.1 13.4
Intermediate 26.2 25.2 21.2 32.0 40.4 41.7 38.4 41.0
High 10.7 8.6 11.1 12.2 7.3 5.7 5.5 10.6
Economically inactive 42.7 47.1 49.6 31.9 42.2 45.7 46.1 34.9
Familial status 0.182 0.204
Couple with children 26.5 25.7 22.7 30.8 33.0 33.3 31.5 34.2
Couple without child 47.9 52.2 47.2 44.4 34.4 29.6 35.8 37.8
Single parent household 6.3 4.9 8.8 5.2 7.0 9.1 5.9 6.0
Single without children 19.3 17.2 21.3 19.5 25.4 27.9 26.4 22.1
No answer 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.0
Quintile of ICU 0.009 0.154
1 20.2 25.2 18.2 17.3 20.6 23.5 20.9 17.5
2 19.3 21.3 22.3 14.3 19.9 19.1 19.2 21.2
3 23.1 14.9 27.3 26.9 19.6 21.5 18.9 18.6
4 19.6 19.2 17.8 21.8 23.2 20.7 24.9 24.0
5 17.8 19.4 14.3 19.8 16.7 15.1 16.1 18.7
Food insecurity 0.339 0.303
Yes 9.9 9.3 11.9 8.3 11.9 14.0 10.2 11.5
No 85.9 84.2 83.7 89.6 83.2 81.7 86.0 81.9
No answer 4.3 6.4 4.3 2.1 4.9 4.4 3.8 6.6
Perception of household financial situation 0.242 0.174
High 6.4 8.7 5.3 5.3 94.7 92.8 94.8 96.6
Low 93.0 90.5 93.9 94.6 5.0 7.0 4.7 3.4
No answer 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.0
Level of education 0.010 0.599
Low 15.4 21.0 17.0 8.4 20.1 22.1 20.2 18.1
Intermediate 55.5 53.4 53.8 59.2 48.6 49.1 49.5 47.2
High 29.0 25.7 29 32.2 31.2 28.8 30.0 34.7
No answer 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0
Region of residence 0.128 0.008
Northwest 13.8 12.8 13.3 15.2 15 11.2 19 15
East 8.9 10.0 11.2 5.6 9.7 8.5 8.7 11.8
Ile De France 17.7 19.7 14.7 18.8 17.3 22.5 15.0 14.3
West 14.1 15.2 13.8 13.3 14.4 12.5 18.1 12.6
Centre 10.4 10.4 13.6 7.4 9.6 10.3 9.5 9.1
Centre-east 11.6 10.1 7.9 16.5 12.6 14.8 12.2 10.8
South-west 11.2 10.4 12.8 10.3 10.0 9.2 6.2 14.4
South-east 12.4 11.5 12.6 13.0 11.5 11.1 11.4 12.0
Season of protocol completion 0.004 <0.001
Winter 23.8 27.4 25.0 19.0 26.9 33.1 25.3 22.5
Spring 26.4 22.4 25.4 31.4 23.5 23.6 22.1 24.7
Summer 24.0 21.2 20.3 30.3 26.9 16.8 28.9 35.0
Autumn 25.9 29.0 29.3 19.4 22.6 26.5 23.7 17.8
Level of physical activity (IPAQ score) 0.017 0.808
Low 20.7 24.6 20.6 17.0 24.0 23.3 24.3 24.5
Middle 29.6 31.8 33.9 23.2 32.4 34.2 33.4 29.7
High 48.6 43.3 45.3 56.9 42.4 41.6 41.1 44.5
No answer 1.1 0.2 0.2 2.8 1.1 0.9 1.2 1.2
Smoker 0.004 0.164
Smoker 28.1 36.5 22.3 25.7 23.3 26.9 19.9 23.0
Not smoker 71.9 63.5 77.7 74.3 76.7 73.1 80.1 77.0

Abbreviations: ICU, income per consumption unit; IPAQ, International Physical Activity Questionnaire. 1 Values are survey-weighted means with standard deviations; quintiles of ICU were ≤700; ]700;976]; ]976;1367]; ]1367;1867]; >1867 and ≤580; ]580;915]; ]915;1306]; ]1306;1867]; among men and women, respectively.