Table 1.

Covariates and Kendall’s τ with nutritional label use.

Variable	Type	Kendall’s τ	p
Gender, male	Binary	−0.19	<0.001
Race, Hispanic	Binary	−0.14	<0.001
Household size	Numeric	−0.13	<0.001
Born to be fat?	Ordinal	−0.07	<0.001
Drug user	Binary	−0.05	<0.001
Smoker	Binary	−0.04	0.003
Safe sex	Binary	−0.01	0.338
Race, black	Binary	0.00	0.867
Heart disease	Binary	0.00	0.816
Drinks per day	Numeric	0.00	0.699
Race, other	Binary	0.01	0.292
Pregnant	Binary	0.01	0.430
(Meals away from home)2	Numeric	0.02	0.060
Meals away from home	Numeric	0.02	0.048
Prior BMI	Numeric	0.04	0.001
Age	Numeric	0.06	<0.001
Diabetic medicine	Binary	0.07	<0.001
Diabetic	Binary	0.10	<0.001
Race, white	Binary	0.11	<0.001
Doct. advice 2 (reduce weight for chol.)	Binary	0.11	<0.001
Doct. advice 3 (less fat for disease risk)	Binary	0.11	<0.001
Income	Ordinal	0.12	<0.001
Weight thoughts	Ordinal	0.12	<0.001
Food security	Ordinal	0.13	<0.001
Doct. advice 1 (less fat for chol.)	Binary	0.13	<0.001
Doct. advice 4 (reduce weight for disease risk)	Binary	0.13	<0.001
Healthy diet	Binary	0.16	<0.001
(Metabolic equivalence)2	Numeric	0.16	<0.001
Metabolic equivalence	Numeric	0.18	<0.001
Heard of diet guidelines	Binary	0.24	<0.001
Heard of 5-a-day program	Binary	0.24	<0.001
Education	Ordinal	0.25	<0.001
Heard of food pyramid	Binary	0.28	<0.001

BMI: body mass index.