Table 3.
The frequency of ordering ready-to-eat food delivery before and during the pandemic.
| Statement | Frequency | Lebanon |
Jordan |
Tunisia |
TOTAL Nb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%)a | N (%)a | N (%)a | |||
| Delivery of hot ready-to-eat food before the pandemic | Never | 54(15.7)a | 31(7.6)ab | 63(21.1)b | 148 (14.1) |
| No access to food delivery services | 11(3.2)ab | 44(10.8)ac | 92(30.9)bc | 147(14.0) | |
| Less than once a week | 122(35.4)a | 153(37.7)b | 76(25.5)ab | 351 (33.5) | |
| Once a week | 75(21.5) | 79(19.5) | 44(14.8) | 198 (18.9) | |
| Twice a week | 50(14.5)a | 47(11.6)b | 9(3.0)ab | 106 (10.1) | |
| More than twice a week | 33(9.6) | 52(12.8)a | 14(4.7)a | 99 (9.4) | |
| Total | 345(32.9) | 406(38.7) | 298(28.4) | 1049 | |
| Delivery of hot ready-to-eat food during the pandemic | Never | 177(51.9)ab | 91(22.6)a | 75(26.0)b | 343 (33.3) |
| No access to food delivery services | 37(10.9)ab | 112(27.9)ac | 108(37.5)bc | 257 (25.0) | |
| Less than once a week | 93(27.3) | 137(34.1) | 76(26.3) | 306 (29.6) | |
| Once a week | 19(5.6) | 36(8.9) | 24(8.3) | 79(7.7) | |
| Twice a week | 12(3.5)a | 16(4.0)b | 1(0.3)ab | 29 (2.8) | |
| More than twice a week | 3(0.9) | 10(2.5) | 4(1.4) | 17(1.6) | |
| Total | 341(33.1) | 402(39.0) | 288(27.9) | 1031 | |
| Delivery of cold food before the pandemic | Never | 128(37.5)ac | 54(13.4)a | 70(24.4)c | 252 (24.4) |
| No access to food delivery services | 28(8.2)a | 76(18.8)ab | 110(38.3)ab | 214 (20.7) | |
| Less than once a week | 105(30.8) | 146(36.1)a | 68(23.7)a | 319 (31.0) | |
| Once a week | 46(13.5) | 64(15.8) | 29(10.1) | 139 (13.5) | |
| Twice a week | 22(6.5) | 31(7.7) | 0 (0.0) | 53 (5.1) | |
| More than twice a week | 12(3.5)a | 33(8.2)ab | 10(3.5)b | 55 (5.3) | |
| Total | 341(33.0) | 404(39.1) | 287(27.9) | 1032 | |
| Delivery of cold food during the pandemic | Never | 209(61.3)ab | 92(23.0)a | 73(25.6)b | 374 (36.6) |
| No access to food delivery services | 48(14.0)a | 122(30.6)ab | 114(40.0)ab | 284 27.7) | |
| Less than once a week | 65(19.1)a | 132(33.1)a | 73 (25.6) | 270 (26.3) | |
| Once a week | 14(4.1) | 29(7.3) | 19(6.7) | 62 (6.0) | |
| Twice a week | 5(1.5) | 15(3.7)a | 1(0.4)a | 21 (2.0) | |
| More than twice a week | 0 (0.0) | 9(2.3) | 5(1.7) | 14 (1.4) | |
| Total | 341(33.3) | 399(38.9) | 285(27.8) | 1025 |
Values in the same row with similar superscript are significantly different (p < 0.05).
a
% of the total respondents in each country.
b
% of the total sample size N of the three countries.