Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics, stratified by daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and artificially sweetened beverages (ASB), of adults (n 9991) aged 30–64 years in the Fenland Study, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2005–2013
| SSB* | ASB* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily (n 2041) | Less than daily (n 7950) | P | Daily (n 893) | Less than daily (n 9098) | P | |
| Age (years) | 45·8 | 48·4 | <0·001 | 46·6 | 48·0 | <0·001 |
| Sex (% women) | 49·8 | 55·0 | <0·001 | 62·0 | 53·1 | <0·001 |
| Test site (%) | ||||||
| Cambridge | 24·4 | 36·4 | 20·8 | 35·2 | ||
| Ely | 40·4 | 37·1 | 40·9 | 37·5 | ||
| Wisbech | 35·2 | 26·5 | <0·001 | 38·3 | 27·3 | <0·001 |
| Ethnicity (%) | ||||||
| White | 92·4 | 90·7 | 91·8 | 91·0 | ||
| Non-white | 0·9 | 2·8 | 0·8 | 2·5 | ||
| Unknown | 6·7 | 6·5 | <0·001 | 7·4 | 6·5 | <0·001 |
| Age finishing education (%)† | ||||||
| ≤16 years | 45·9 | 37·9 | 47·9 | 38·7 | ||
| 17–19 years | 27·0 | 23·8 | 30·4 | 23·9 | ||
| 20–23 years | 18·3 | 23·8 | 14·7 | 23·4 | ||
| ≥24 years | 6·4 | 11·7 | <0·001 | 5·0 | 11·1 | <0·001 |
| Socio-economic class (%) | ||||||
| Lower | 32·0 | 23·9 | 25·8 | 25·5 | ||
| Middle | 18·7 | 18·6 | 24·2 | 18·1 | ||
| Higher | 43·0 | 51·0 | 42·6 | 50·0 | ||
| Unknown | 6·4 | 6·6 | <0·001 | 7·5 | 6·4 | <0·001 |
| Current work status (%)† | ||||||
| Full-time work | 64·4 | 64·3 | 64·8 | 64·3 | ||
| Part-time work | 17·7 | 16·8 | 16·5 | 17·1 | ||
| Keeping house | 10·0 | 9·6 | 11·3 | 9·5 | ||
| Not currently working | 7·7 | 9·0 | 0·32 | 6·9 | 8·9 | 0·097 |
| Employment type (%)† | ||||||
| Employee | 78·6 | 78·2 | 82·0 | 77·9 | ||
| Self-employed | 20·8 | 20·8 | 0·48 | 17·0 | 21·2 | 0·009 |
| Total combined annual household income† | ||||||
| <£20 000 | 15·2 | 12·9 | 11·3 | 13·6 | ||
| £20 000–£40 000 | 37·4 | 34·6 | 37·9 | 34·9 | ||
| >£40 000 | 44·7 | 49·6 | <0·001 | 48·7 | 48·5 | 0·064 |
| Marital status (%) | ||||||
| Single | 6·3 | 7·0 | 4·9 | 7·1 | ||
| Married | 58·1 | 58·5 | 55·7 | 58·7 | ||
| Separated/widowed/divorced | 5·8 | 6·9 | 5·9 | 6·8 | ||
| Unknown‡ | 29·8 | 27·6 | 0·064 | 33·5 | 27·5 | <0·001 |
| No· of people in household (%) | ||||||
| 1 person | 6·5 | 9·4 | 6·6 | 9·0 | ||
| 2 people | 25·3 | 31·9 | 29·5 | 30·6 | ||
| 3 people | 22·1 | 18·2 | 19·7 | 18·9 | ||
| 4 people or more | 39·6 | 34·0 | 36·7 | 35·0 | ||
| Unknown | 6·7 | 6·5 | <0·001 | 7·5 | 6·5 | 0·077 |
| Car ownership (%)† | ||||||
| No | 5·3 | 7·0 | 3·7 | 6·9 | ||
| Yes | 94·5 | 92·8 | 0·009 | 96·1 | 92·9 | <0·001 |
| Home ownership (%) | ||||||
| No | 3·8 | 4·4 | 3·4 | 4·4 | ||
| Yes | 88·0 | 88·0 | 89·6 | 87·8 | ||
| Unknown | 8·2 | 7·6 | 0·153 | 7·1 | 7·8 | 0·812 |
Values are percentage of each characteristic among daily consumers or non-daily consumers, except age (years). P values were computed by logistic regression analysis in which daily consumption (yes or no) was an outcome and each characteristic was a predictor.
Missing information among <5 % of adults is not presented.
Marital status was not assessed among 28·0 % of the study population because a questionnaire for those participants did not include the question about marital status, but was revised to include the question for the rest of the participants.