Table 1.
Characteristics of survey respondents included in analyses, overall and by climate regiona.
| Overall | Climate region | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | Arid | Temperate | ||
| Participants, n (%) | 3,312 | 1,283 (38.7) | 1,428 (43.1) | 601 (18.1) |
| Sex | ||||
| Men | 48.1 | 49.7 | 47.3 | 47.4 |
| Women | 51.9 | 50.3 | 52.7 | 52.6 |
| Age group | ||||
| Preschool children (1–4 y) | 6.9 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 6.6 |
| School children (5–11 y) | 13.8 | 14.6 | 13.9 | 13.1 |
| Adolescents (12–19 y) | 18 | 18.3 | 17.4 | 18.2 |
| Adults (≥20 y) | 61.3 | 59.7 | 61.8 | 62.1 |
| Educational level | ||||
| Primary or less | 41.7 | 43.5 | 39.7 | 42.2 |
| Secondary | 28.3 | 25.0 | 28.5 | 30.7 |
| High school | 13.7 | 15.8 | 13.6 | 12.3 |
| Technical career or higher | 16.3 | 15.7 | 18.2 | 14.8 |
| Contribution of foods to total energy | ||||
| Intake | ||||
| Unprocessed | 48.2 | 49.2 | 48.2 | 47.4 |
| Processed | 6.7 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 6.9 |
| Ultra-processed | 37.3 | 36.4 | 37.3 | 37.9 |
| Municipalities, n (%) | 164 | 65 (39.6) | 53 (32.3) | 46 (28.1) |
| Number of participants per municipality [median (p25, p75)] | 33 (17, 67) | 36 (17, 55) | 53 (23, 84) | 18 (10, 30) |
a
Values are percentages, unless otherwise indicated.