Table 3.

Association between proportion of spoon‐feeding and puréeing and maternal demographic factors

	Spoon‐feeding	Puréeing
Education mother	−0.191**	−0.194**
Married or not	−0.104**	−0.113**
Paternal occupation †	−0.118**	−0.120*
Maternal occupation †	−0.088*	−0.084**
Return to work	−0.098	−0.075*
Own home or not	−0.046	−0.035
Income	−0.042	−0.051
Age of mother	0.020	−0.012

^* P < 0.05,

^** P < 0.01, Spearman's rho.

^† Where response options gave category of ‘other’, these participants were excluded from the correlation because of its non‐ordinal form.