Table 2.

Class item-response probabilities, prevalence of latent statuses and transition probabilities

	Frequent skippers	Inconsistent school eaters	Inconsistent home eaters	Regular home eaters	Regular school eaters	Double breakfast eaters
Prevalence of statuses at (%):
Grade 5	11.5	6.8	15.8	43.7	11.9	10.1
Grade 6	17.5	9.4	14.4	31.6	16.9	10.3
Grade 7	22.9	12.4	12.9	34.1	9.8	8.0
Transitions from Grade 5 (rows) to Grade 6 (columns) (%)*:
Frequent skippers	34.7	16.3	22.3	12.7	12.2	1.9
Inconsistent school eaters	14.1	18.5	11.2	20.6	14.0	21.6
Inconsistent home eaters	20.6	11.1	11.7	29.2	11.7	9.6
Regular home eaters	15.3	4.8	11.6	41.7	19.0	7.7
Regular school eaters	13.9	12.1	15.7	17.2	27.5	13.7
double breakfast eaters	9.6	9.8	13.4	37.3	11.3	18.6
Transitions from Grade 6 (rows) to Grade 7 (columns) (%)*:
Frequent skippers	50.1	15.1	15.7	11.9	3.7	3.5
Inconsistent school eaters	27.2	31.3	15.8	13.4	5.1	7.2
Inconsistent home eaters	28.0	12.0	24.1	21.5	6.6	7.9
Regular home eaters	11.1	7.3	11.2	62.0	5.0	3.5
Regular school eaters	13.9	11.2	8.4	29.9	30.1	6.5
double breakfast eaters	16.4	8.3	2.2	29.2	10.3	33.6

^*Transition probabilities are presented here as percentages (by multiplying by 100) for easier interpretation.