Type	Variable name	Description/levels
Numeric	Age	Years of respondent
	Drinks per day	# of alcoholic drinks consumed per day over the past 12 months
	Household size	# of people in household
	Meals away from home	# weekly meals prepared outside of home
	Metabolic equivalence	Total metabolic activity rate
	Prior BMI	Calculated using respondent’s estimate of their weight from one-year ago and their current height
Ordinal	Born to be fat?	Are people born to be fat? Respondent answers: strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, or strongly agree
	Education	HS/GED, some college or associate’s degree, or college graduate
	Food security	Household food security: low, marginal, or full
	Income	Household income: Less than $24,999/year, between $25,000 and $54,999/year, or greater than $55,000/year
	Weight thoughts	Respondent’s thoughts on his or her own weight: underweight, about the right weight, or overweight
Nominal	Race	Hispanic, non-Hispanic white (white), non-Hispanic black (black), Other
	Diabetic	Respondent has been told by a doctor of diabetes or pre-diabetic conditions
	Diabetic medicine	Respondent takes insulin or pills for diabetes
	Doct. advice 1	Doctor’s advice to respondent: eat less fat for cholesterol
	Doct. advice 2	Doctor’s advice to respondent: reduce weight for cholesterol
	Doct. advice 3	Doctor’s advice to respondent: eat less fat for disease risk
	Doct. advice 4	Doctor’s advice to respondent: reduce weight for disease risk
	Drug user	Respondent has used hashish, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine in the past month
	Gender	Male, female
	Healthy diet	Respondent rates diet as good or better
	Heard of 5-a-day program	Respondent has heard of 5-a-day program
	Heard of diet guidelines	Respondent has heard of diet guidelines
	Heard of food guide pyramid	Respondent has heard of food guide pyramid
	Heart disease	Respondent suffers from coronary heart disease, stroke, or liver condition
	Pregnant	Respondent is pregnant
	Safe sex	Respondent has not had sex without a condom in the past year
	Smoker	Respondent smokes cigarettes