Table 3.

Ordinal logistic regression predicting food label literacy

Predictor variables	Block 1 ***	Block 2 ***	Block 3 ***	Block 4 ***	Block 5
Age	−0.018	−0.018	−0.019	−0.019	−0.005
Education	0.05	0.015	0.015	−0.006	−0.059
Income	0.317 ***	0.329 *	0.336 ***	0.324 ***	0.267 **
Speak English	−0.042	−0.142	−0.092	−0.041	0.258
Occupation status	0.007	0.026	0.034	0.023	0.005
Married	−0.765	−0.936	−1.048	−1.089	−1.161
Single	−1.128	−1.162	−1.155	−1.235	−1.538
Divorced	−1.287	−1.503	−1.608	−1.699	−1.281
Other marital status	−0.889	−0.994	−1.169	−1.232	−1.113
Gender	−0.071	−0.103	−0.077	−0.04	0.084
White	−0.751	−0.897 *	−0.889 *	−0.858	0.141
Black	0.948	0.829	0.607	0.563	1.17
Asian	−0.273	−0.297	−0.161	−0.212	−0.642
Hispanic	−0.508	−0.800	−0.720	−0.859	−0.751
Other race	−0.941	−1.026	−1.279	−1.221	0.246
Confidence to take care of self	–	0.216	0.192	0.177	−0.047
Body mass index	–	–	−0.50 *	−0.51 *	−0.65 *
Seek health information	–	–	–	−0.401	−0.284
Participates in a support group	–	–	–	–	−0.591*
Nagelkerke R-square	0.208	0.221	0.239	0.244	0.156
Change in Nagelkerke R-Square	–	0.013	0.018	0.005	−0.088

*Significant at .05 level, **significant at .01 level, ***significant at .001 level