Table 1.
Descriptive statistics at age 5 by breakfast consumption and physical activity.
| All | Days per week eats breakfast |
Weekly physical activity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Some days, but not all days | Every day | Not at all | 1–4 days | 5 or + days | |||||||||
| Female | 50.2 | (50.0) | 57.7 | (50.0) | 55.4 | (49.8) | 49.9 | (50.0) | 45.6 | (49.8) | 53.3 | (49.9) | 44.1 | (50.0) |
| Ethnicity | ||||||||||||||
| White | 90.0 | (30.0) | 86.3 | (34.7) | 79.2 | (40.7) | 90.6 | (29.2) | 84.1 | (36.6) | 93.7 | (24.3) | 95.9 | (20.0) |
| Mixed | 2.4 | (15.4) | 4.1 | (20.1) | 3.8 | (19.2) | 2.3 | (15.1) | 2.7 | (16.2) | 2.3 | (15.0) | 0.3 | (5.2) |
| Indian | 1.9 | (13.6) | 0.0 | (0.0) | 2.2 | (14.8) | 1.9 | (13.6) | 2.8 | (16.4) | 1.3 | (11.5) | 0.9 | (9.5) |
| Pakistani and Bangladeshi | 3.1 | (17.4) | 4.5 | (20.9) | 9.3 | (29.1) | 2.8 | (16.4) | 6.7 | (25.1) | 0.8 | (9.0) | 2.5 | (15.7) |
| Black or Black British | 1.7 | (12.8) | 3.9 | (19.5) | 4.0 | (19.5) | 1.5 | (12.3) | 2.4 | (15.3) | 1.2 | (11.0) | 0.4 | (6.6) |
| Other Ethnic group | 0.9 | (9.4) | 1.2 | (11.1) | 1.5 | (12.1) | 0.9 | (9.3) | 1.4 | (11.7) | 0.6 | (7.7) | 0.0 | (0.0) |
| Urban | 76.6 | (42.3) | 82.3 | (38.6) | 84.5 | (36.2) | 76.1 | (42.6) | 80.9 | (39.3) | 74.1 | (43.8) | 63.9 | (48.4) |
| Region | ||||||||||||||
| North East | 3.2 | (17.5) | 0.0 | (0.0) | 2.7 | (16.2) | 3.2 | (17.6) | 3.7 | (18.8) | 2.8 | (16.5) | 3.9 | (19.5) |
| North West | 9.3 | (29.1) | 7.3 | (26.3) | 10.0 | (30.0) | 9.3 | (29.1) | 9.4 | (29.1) | 9.3 | (29.0) | 12.5 | (33.3) |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 8.7 | (28.2) | 12.7 | (33.6) | 10.1 | (30.2) | 8.6 | (28.0) | 11.3 | (31.6) | 7.1 | (25.7) | 4.2 | (20.3) |
| East Midlands | 8.1 | (27.3) | 11.7 | (32.5) | 4.5 | (20.7) | 8.3 | (27.6) | 8.2 | (27.4) | 8.0 | (27.1) | 15.0 | (36.0) |
| West Midlands | 7.3 | (26.1) | 14.6 | (35.7) | 11.5 | (32.0) | 7.0 | (25.6) | 7.7 | (26.7) | 7.0 | (25.5) | 11.2 | (31.7) |
| East of England | 10.4 | (30.5) | 16.5 | (37.6) | 9.5 | (29.3) | 10.4 | (30.5) | 10.5 | (30.7) | 10.3 | (30.4) | 6.4 | (24.6) |
| London | 10.2 | (30.2) | 7.7 | (26.9) | 12.4 | (33.0) | 10.0 | (30.1) | 10.1 | (30.1) | 10.2 | (30.3) | 9.4 | (29.3) |
| South East | 16.6 | (37.2) | 6.6 | (25.2) | 15.8 | (36.5) | 16.7 | (37.3) | 17.0 | (37.6) | 16.4 | (37.0) | 12.8 | (33.7) |
| South West | 9.9 | (29.9) | 5.2 | (22.5) | 8.3 | (27.6) | 10.0 | (30.1) | 8.9 | (28.5) | 10.7 | (30.9) | 5.1 | (22.2) |
| Wales | 5.0 | (21.7) | 10.5 | (31.0) | 5.0 | (21.8) | 4.9 | (21.7) | 4.2 | (20.0) | 5.5 | (22.8) | 2.8 | (16.7) |
| Scotland | 8.0 | (27.2) | 3.9 | (19.6) | 6.5 | (24.6) | 8.1 | (27.3) | 5.2 | (22.3) | 9.8 | (29.7) | 11.1 | (31.6) |
| Northern Ireland | 3.3 | (17.9) | 3.3 | (18.0) | 3.8 | (19.2) | 3.3 | (17.8) | 3.8 | (19.1) | 3.0 | (17.0) | 5.5 | (22.9) |
| Housing Tenure | ||||||||||||||
| Rent house or other | 23.8 | (42.6) | 48.5 | (50.6) | 42.3 | (49.5) | 22.6 | (41.8) | 38.2 | (48.6) | 14.7 | (35.4) | 14.0 | (34.9) |
| Own house | 76.2 | (42.6) | 51.5 | (50.6) | 57.7 | (49.5) | 77.4 | (41.8) | 61.8 | (48.6) | 85.3 | (35.4) | 86.0 | (34.9) |
| Combined labour market status | ||||||||||||||
| Both in work | 56.3 | (49.6) | 34.9 | (48.2) | 43.2 | (49.6) | 57.1 | (49.5) | 44.4 | (49.7) | 64.0 | (48.0) | 56.3 | (49.9) |
| Only one in work, (main or partner) | 27.0 | (44.4) | 31.2 | (46.9) | 25.7 | (43.8) | 27.1 | (44.4) | 29.9 | (45.8) | 25.1 | (43.4) | 30.3 | (46.3) |
| Both not in work | 3.3 | (17.9) | 15.4 | (36.5) | 6.9 | (25.3) | 3.0 | (17.2) | 6.1 | (24.0) | 1.5 | (12.1) | 2.7 | (16.5) |
| Main in work or on leave, no partner | 7.1 | (25.7) | 8.3 | (27.8) | 11.2 | (31.6) | 6.9 | (25.3) | 8.2 | (27.4) | 6.5 | (24.6) | 5.7 | (23.3) |
| Main not in work nor on leave, no partner | 6.3 | (24.3) | 10.1 | (30.5) | 13.0 | (33.7) | 5.9 | (23.6) | 11.5 | (31.9) | 3.0 | (17.0) | 5.0 | (22.0) |
| Number of siblings in household plus participant | 1.3 | (0.9) | 1.5 | (1.1) | 1.5 | (1.1) | 1.3 | (0.9) | 1.5 | (1.1) | 1.3 | (0.8) | 1.4 | (1.0) |
| Deflated OECD equivalised weekly family income | 388.7 | (213.2) | 307.8 | (219.6) | 310.3 | (203.3) | 393.5 | (212.7) | 310.5 | (183.8) | 438.4 | (215.7) | 441.9 | (211.5) |
| Permanent OECD equivalised weekly family income (0-5y) | 380.5 | (197.4) | 298.4 | (229.8) | 294.4 | (175.4) | 385.8 | (197.2) | 300.7 | (171.3) | 431.3 | (196.5) | 432.0 | (174.6) |
| Observations | 6883 | 44 | 422 | 6417 | 2956 | 3851 | 76 | |||||||
Notes: This table show mean/proportions of covariates used in OLS and FE regressions. Standard deviations are shown in parenthesis. Statistics are reported by breakfast consumption and physical activity (see Method section for details).