Table 4.
Policy-compliant vending machines (snacks and drinks).
| Ontario | Alberta | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliant n (%) |
% Relative Change (Per Year) | Non-Compliant n (%) |
% Relative Change (Per Year) | Unknown a n (%) |
Chi-Square Test (p-Value) | Compliant n (%) |
% Relative Change (Per Year) | Non-Compliant n (%) |
% Relative Change (Per Year) | Unknown n (%) |
Chi-Square Test (p-Value) | |
| Snacks | ||||||||||||
| 2015/2016 | 14 (17) | +41% | 64 (78) | −9% | 4 (5) | -- | 0 (0) | 0% | 12 (100) | 0% | 0 (0) | -- |
| 2018/2019 | 0 (0) | −100% * | 71 (84) | +8% | 14 (16) | ** | -- | 0% | 13 (100) | 0% | 0 (0) | ** |
| Drinks | ||||||||||||
| 2015/2016 | 47 (29) | −6% | 111 (69) | 0% | 4 (2) | -- | 1 (5) | 0% | 20 (95) | 0% | 0 (0) | -- |
| 2018/2019 | 30 (23) | −21% | 100 (75) | +9% | 3 (2) | 0.2301 | 0 (0) | −100% | 28 (97) | +2% | 1 (3) | ** |
a Unknown vending machines had no non-permitted products, but the proportion of products in other categories (e.g., “Sell 80” or “Sell Most”) could not be determined with any certainty. * 100% relative decrease in compliance was due to no schools being compliant in 2018–19. ** Unable to complete chi-square test due to insufficient sample size.