Table 1. Consumption rate of milk and dairy products among Chinese middle and high school students in 2016–2017.
| Types of milk and products | Gender | Region | Total | ||||||||||||||
| Male | Female | χ2 | P | Urban | Rural | χ 2 | P | ||||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||||||
| Liquid milk | 8167 | 57.5 | 7918 | 55.6 | 10.4211 | 0.0012 | 8897 | 65.5 | 7188 | 48.4 | 845.4064 | <0.0001 | 16085 | 56.5 | |||
| Milk powder | 692 | 4.9 | 926 | 6.5 | 35.2400 | <0.0001 | 951 | 7.0 | 667 | 4.5 | 83.4034 | <0.0001 | 1618 | 5.7 | |||
| Yogurt | 8091 | 57.0 | 9379 | 65.9 | 237.4309 | <0.0001 | 9174 | 67.5 | 8296 | 55.8 | 409.3331 | <0.0001 | 17470 | 61.4 | |||
| Other milk products | 552 | 3.9 | 714 | 5.0 | 21.2565 | <0.0001 | 824 | 6.1 | 442 | 3.0 | 159.3793 | <0.0001 | 1266 | 4.5 | |||
| Total milk and products | 11560 | 81.4 | 11919 | 83.7 | 26.2947 | <0.0001 | 11996 | 88.3 | 11483 | 77.3 | 596.9972 | <0.0001 | 23479 | 82.5 | |||