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. 2020 Oct 12;12(10):3107. doi: 10.3390/nu12103107

Table 4.

Differences between the deprivation quintiles of the physical food outlet location and food outlet characteristics available on Uber Eats in Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.

Deprivation Quintiles
Least Disadvantaged Most Disadvantaged p-Valuediff
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
Sydney, Australia, n (%) 271 (39.9) 136 (20.0) 113 (16.6) 71 (10.4) 89 (13.1)
Delivery details
SEIFA IRSD deprivation quintile of delivery suburb, median (IQR) 1 (1–2) 2 (1–3) 3 (2–3) 3 (1–3) 4 (3–5) <0.0001
Delivery cost ($AUD), median (IQR) 4.99 (3.99–6.99) 5.99 (3.99–6.99) 5.99 (4.99–7.99) 5.99 (4.99–7.99) 5.99 (4.99–7.99) <0.0001
Delivery distance (km), median (IQR) 2.90 (1.7–3.8) 2.90 (1.9–4.0) 3.20 (2.3–4.2) 3.00 (2.0–4.3) 3.20 (1.8–4.1) <0.0001
Food outlet ‘healthiness’ score
‘Healthiness’ score, median (IQR) −8 (−10–0) −8 (−10–0) −8 (−10–−8) −8 (−10–0) −8 (−10–−8) 0.2307
Unhealthy (score < −4), n (%) 185 (68) 100 (75) 88 (78) 52 (72) 74 (84) 0.1307
Less healthy (score −4 to 4), n (%) 67 (25) 29 (21) 20 (18) 17 (24) 13 (15)
Healthy (score > 4), n (%) 20 (7) 6 (4) 5 (4) 3 (4) 1 (1)
Most popular menu items
Proportion (%) of discretionary menu items, median (IQR) 100 (66.7–100) 100 (80–100) 100 (80–100) 100 (80–100) 100 (80–100) 0.6167
Auckland, New Zealand, n (%) 48 (12.2) 109 (27.2) 71 (18.0) 95 (24.1) 49 (12.4)
Delivery details
NZDep2018 deprivation quintile of delivery suburb 1, median (IQR) 1 (1–2) 2 (1–2) 3 (2–3) 3 (2–4) 4 (3– 5) <0.0001
Delivery cost ($NZD), median (IQR) 7.99 (4.99–7.99) 7.99 (5.99–7.99) 6.99 (5.99–7.99) 7.99 (6.99–7.99) 7.99 (5.99–7.99) <0.0001
Delivery distance (km), median (IQR) 3.00 (1.8–4.2) 3.20 (2.0–4.5) 2.80 (1.9–4.4) 3.60 (2.4–4.7) 2.8 (2.1–4.1) 0.0004
Food outlet ‘healthiness’ score
‘Healthiness’ score, median (IQR) −8 (−10–0) −10 (−10–0) −10 (−10–−8) −10 (−10–−8) −10 (−10–−8) 0.0277
Unhealthy (score < −4), n (%) 27 (56) 75 (69) 55 (77) 75 (79) 42 (86) 0.0537
Less healthy (score −4 to 4), n (%) 18 (38) 29 (27) 14 (20) 16 (17) 5 (10)
Healthy (score > 4), n (%) 3 (6) 5 (5) 2 (3) 4 (4) 2 (4)
Most popular menu items
Proportion (%) of discretionary menu items, median (IQR) 95.0 (80–100) 85.7 (70–100) 100 (80–100) 100 (80–100) 100 (85.7–100) 0.0748

Q, quintile; n, number; IQR, interquartile range; AUD, Australian Dollar; NZD, New Zealand Dollar; km, kilometer; SEIFA IRSD, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage; NZDep, New Zealand Index of Deprivation. 1 Three suburbs had no NZDep 2018 available, therefore, 22 unique food outlets had missing data for deprivation quintile of physical food outlet location (5.6% of total unique food outlet locations for Auckland, New Zealand) and ten delivery suburbs had no NZDep 2018 available, therefore, 100 unique delivery routes had missing data for deprivation quintile of delivery suburb (5.4% of total unique delivery routes for Auckland, New Zealand).