Table A1.

Semi-quantitative food frequency and dietary behavior questions in the RESIDE survey.

Survey Item	Description	ICC 1	Frequency Categories	RESIDE Time Point 2
Food Frequency Questions (FFQ)
1 (FFQ)	How many serves of vegetables do you usually eat each day (including fresh, frozen and tinned)? [37]	-	-Do not eat -1 serve or less -2 serves -3–4 serves -5 serves -6 serves or more	T1, T2, T3, T4
2 (FFQ)	How many serves of fruit do you usually eat each day (including fresh, dried, frozen and tinned fruit)? [37]	-
3 (FFQ)	How often do you eat red meat (beef, lamb, and kidney but not pork or ham)? Include all minimally processed forms of red meat such as chops, steaks, roasts, rissoles, mince, stir-fries, and casseroles. [39]	0.95	-Never -Less than once per month -Once per month -2–3 times per month -1–2 times per week -3–5 times per week -Most days (6–7 times per week)	T1, T2, T3, T4
4 (FFQ)	How often do you eat chips, French fries, wedges, fried potatoes or crisps? [39]	0.90
5 (FFQ)	How often do you eat meat products such as sausages, frankfurters, polony, meat pies, bacon or ham? [39]
6 (FFQ)	How often do you eat fish?	0.86	-Never -Less than once per month -Once per month -2–3 times per month -1–2 times per week -3–5 times per week -Most days (6–7 times per week)	T2, T3, T4
7 (FFQ)	How often do you eat bread (including bread rolls, flat breads, crumpets, bagels, English or bread type muffins)? [39]	0.87	-Never -Less than once per month -Once per month -2–3 times per month -1–2 times per week -3–5 times per week -Most days (6–7 times per week)	T4
8 (FFQ)	How often do you eat pasta, rice, noodles or other cooked cereals? [39]	0.82
9 (FFQ)	How often do you eat cheese (including ricotta, cottage, processed, cream cheese, hard and soft cheese)? [39]	0.89
10 (FFQ)	How often do you eat fried, roast or BBQ chicken, pizza, burgers or fish and chips? [38]	-
11 (FFQ)	How often do you eat meat pies, sausage rolls or other savory pastries? [39]	0.88
12 (FFQ)	How often do you eat biscuits, cakes, desserts, pastries, lollies and/or chocolate? [38]	0.87
Dietary Behavior Questions (DBQ)
1 (DBQ)	What type of milk do you usually consume? [38]	-	-Skim -Low/reduced fat (smart milk, Hi Lo, Pura Light Start, Tone) -Other (e.g., soy) -Whole (full cream) -Don’t know	T1, T2, T3, T4
2 (DBQ)	On how many days of the week do you usually drink alcohol?	-	-I don’t drink alcohol -Less than once per week -Number of days per week	T2, T3, T4
3 (DBQ)	On a day when you drink alcohol, how many standard drinks do you usually have?	-	Number of standard drinks	T2, T3, T4
4 (DBQ)	What type of bread do you usually eat? [40]	0.94	-Multigrain bread -Whole meal bread -Rye bread -High fiber white bread -White bread -I don’t eat bread -Other	T4
5 (DBQ)	About how much milk (in total) do you usually have in a day? [39]	0.79	-Less than 150 mL -150 to 300 mL -301 to 600 mL -More than 600 mL	T4
6 (DBQ)	How many cups of water, including sparkling water, do you drink in a day?	-	Number of cups	T4
7 (DBQ)	How many cups of regular or sugar sweetened soft drinks, cordial, fruit juice or sports drinks do you drink in a day? [11]	0.85
8 (DBQ)	How many cups of diet or sugar-free soft drinks, cordial or sports drinks do you drink in a day (such as coke zero or sugar free Gatorade)?	-
9 (DBQ)	How many cups of hot drinks do you drink in a day (such as tea, coffee, herbal tea)?	-
10 (DBD)	How often is the meat you eat trimmed of fat either before or after cooking? [35]	0.93	-Don’t eat meat -Never -Rarely -Sometimes -Usually -Don’t know	T4
11 (DBQ)	How often do you add salt to your food after it is cooked? [35]	0.85	-Never -Rarely -Sometimes -Usually -Don’t know	T4
12 (DBQ)	How often is salt added to your food during cooking? [35]	0.89

¹ ICC = intraclass correlation based on a one-week test-retest reliability of items; ² T1 prior to moving (baseline from 2003–2005), T2 (1-year post move from 2004–2006), T3 (2–3 years post from 2006–2008), and T4 (6–9 years post move from 2011–2012).