Table 4.
Summary statistics of the selected categorical predictors.
| No. | Categorical Variables | Description | Categories/Levels | Frequency | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gender | Gender of the participant | Male = 1; | 225 | 83.0 |
| female = 0 | 46 | 17.0 | |||
| 2 | Education | Education completed by the participant | 1 = No education (no school entered); | 10 | 3.7 |
| 2 = Primary school completed; | 30 | 11.1 | |||
| 3 = Secondary school completed; | 11 | 4.1 | |||
| 4 = High school completed; | 23 | 8.5 | |||
| 5 = Vocation school completed; | 1 | 0.4 | |||
| 6 = College/university completed; | 63 | 23.2 | |||
| 7 = Higher (master or doctor) completed | 133 | 49.1 | |||
| 3 | Drinks | Drinking sugar-containing drinks (Coke, Fanta, soda, fruit juice, other sweet/sugar-containing drinks) three or more times a week | 2 = Yes; | 26 | 9.6 |
| 1 = No | 245 | 90.4 | |||
| 4 | Eating fast foods | Eating fast foods such as pizzas, hamburgers, deep-fried foods (e.g., singara, samosa, Mughlai paratha, etc.) three or more times a week | 2 = Yes; | 49 | 18.1 |
| 1 = No | 222 | 81.9 | |||
| 5 | Health status | Overall health condition | 1 = healthy; | 2 | 0.7 |
| 2 = caution; | 80 | 29 | |||
| 3 = affected; | 122 | 45 | |||
| 4=emergent | 67 | 25 |
Note: Singara, samosa, Mughlai paratha, etc., are popular deep-fried fast foods in Bangladesh.