TABLE 2.
Total dietary greenhouse gas emissions and energy intake per day among the Mexican population, by socio-demographic characteristics.
| Dietary GHGE (kg CO2-eq/cap/day) |
Energy intake (Kcal/day) |
Dietary GHGE per 1000 Kcal |
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| Mean | 95% CI | p-value | Mean | 95% CI | p-value | Mean | 95% CI | p-value | |
| Age | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| 12–17 | 3.60 | (3.49, 3.71) | 1900 | (1853, 1947) | 1.93 | (1.89, 1.96) | |||
| 18–29 | 4.45 | (4.27, 4.64) | 2139 | (2079, 2200) | 2.10 | (2.06, 2.14) | |||
| 30–59 | 3.96 | (3.88, 4.05) | 1926 | (1894, 1957) | 2.09 | (2.06, 2.12) | |||
| ≥60 | 3.36 | (3.25, 3.48) | 1599 | (1561, 1637) | 2.13 | (2.08, 2.19) | |||
| Sex | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| Male | 4.43 | (4.32, 4.54) | 2244 | (2206, 2282) | 1.99 | (1.96, 2.02) | |||
| Female | 3.44 | (3.37, 3.51) | 1615 | (1593, 1638) | 2.15 | (2.12, 2.18) | |||
| Educational attainment | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||||
| Primary school or less | 3.16 | (3.08, 3.24) | 1723 | (1687, 1758) | 1.88 | (1.85, 1.91) | |||
| Middle school | 3.78 | (3.69, 3.87) | 1950 | (1912, 1987) | 1.98 | (1.95, 2.01) | |||
| High school | 4.31 | (4.19, 4.43) | 2015 | (1969, 2061) | 2.18 | (2.13, 2.23) | |||
| College or more | 4.94 | (4.69, 5.18) | 2011 | (1934, 2088) | 2.48 | (2.43, 2.52) | |||
| Socioeconomic status | <0.0001 | 0.8269 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| Low | 3.28 | (3.19, 3.36) | 1904 | (1869, 1938) | 1.75 | (1.72, 1.78) | |||
| Medium | 3.84 | (3.74, 3.94) | 1917 | (1880, 1954) | 2.04 | (2.01, 2.07) | |||
| High | 4.45 | (4.32, 4.58) | 1902 | (1859, 1945) | 2.36 | (2.33, 2.4) | |||
| Speaks indigenous language | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| No | 3.96 | (3.89, 4.03) | 1916 | (1892, 1940) | 2.10 | (2.08, 2.12) | |||
| Yes | 2.90 | (2.74, 3.06) | 1754 | (1686, 1822) | 1.68 | (1.62, 1.75) | |||
| Urbanicity | <0.0001 | 0.5477 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| Urban | 4.07 | (4, 4.15) | 1904 | (1877, 1932) | 2.17 | (2.15, 2.2) | |||
| Rural | 3.28 | (3.18, 3.37) | 1919 | (1881, 1956) | 1.72 | (1.68, 1.75) | |||
| Region | <0.0001 | 0.0015 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| North | 4.17 | (4.06, 4.28) | 1857 | (1819, 1896) | 2.27 | (2.23, 2.3) | |||
| Central | 3.92 | (3.83, 4.01) | 1958 | (1923, 1994) | 2.03 | (1.99, 2.06) | |||
| Mexico City | 4.26 | (3.97, 4.54) | 1862 | (1768, 1955) | 2.32 | (2.25, 2.39) | |||
| South | 3.51 | (3.43, 3.59) | 1912 | (1879, 1945) | 1.87 | (1.84, 1.9) | |||
GHGE, greenhouse gas emissions. Units are kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per capita per day. p-values are from F-tests of separate unadjusted linear regression models of the outcome on each social characteristic.