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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: Food Policy. 2022 Feb;107:102215. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102215

Table 1. Summary statistics.

2016 2017
Mean Mean
Age 43.26 44.26
Gender (1=Female) 0.58 0.59
Respondent’s household size 3.04 3.00
Percentage of children in respondent’s household size 0.20 0.19
Annual real out-of-home food expenditure (June 2015=100) 369.42 369.58
Share of items purchased for others 0.34 0.35
Education (%)
    None 0.04 0.04
    GSCE/ A Level 0.38 0.38
    Higher education/Degree 0.53 0.53
    Other/ Unknown 0.06 0.06
Occupational socio-economic grade (%)
    Low-SES 0.17 0.17
    Middle-SES 0.59 0.59
    High-SES 0.24 0.24
Regions (%)
    London 0.16 0.18
    Midlands 0.16 0.16
    North East 0.05 0.05
    Yorkshire 0.13 0.12
    Lancashire 0.12 0.11
    South 0.10 0.10
    Scotland 0.08 0.08
    East of England 0.08 0.08
    Wales and West of England 0.08 0.08
    South West 0.03 0.03
Observations 7410 7711