Table 1.
Prevalence of breakfast skipping (n, %) by gender, grade, socioeconomic status, and geographical remoteness among South Australian students in grades 4–12 in 2019 (n = 71,390)
| Never skips (n = 39,291, 55.0%) |
Sometimes skips (n = 12,435, 17.4%) |
Often skips (n = 12,858, 18.0%) |
Always skips (n = 6806, 9.5%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 21,359 (59.5) | 6257 (17.4) | 5385 (15.0) | 2895 (8.1) |
| Female | 17,708 (50.7) | 6082 (17.4) | 7339 (21.0) | 3780 (10.8) | |
| Other | 224 (38.3) | 96 (16.4) | 134 (22.9) | 131 (22.4) | |
| Grade | 4–5 | 13,952 (70.7) | 2837 (14.4) | 2110 (10.7) | 833 (4.2) |
| 6–7 | 11,486 (60.0) | 3515 (18.4) | 2924 (15.3) | 1235 (6.5) | |
| 8–9 | 7401 (46.4) | 3050 (19.1) | 3487 (21.9) | 2015 (12.6) | |
| 10–12 | 6452 (39.0) | 3033 (18.3) | 4337 (26.2) | 2723 (16.5) | |
| Socioeconomic status | Quintile 1 | 8822 (48.3) | 3087 (16.9) | 3974 (21.8) | 2392 (13.1) |
| Quintile 2 | 6113 (51.9) | 2088 (17.7) | 2348 (19.9) | 1231 (10.5) | |
| Quintile 3 | 6189 (54.7) | 1976 (17.5) | 2089 (18.5) | 1068 (9.4) | |
| Quintile 4 | 8701 (58.5) | 2554 (17.2) | 2427 (16.3) | 1199 (8.1) | |
| Quintile 5 | 9466 (62.6) | 2730 (18.0) | 2020 (13.4) | 916 (6.1) | |
| Geographical remoteness | Major Cities | 27,911 (56.4) | 8397 (17.0) | 8645 (17.5) | 4536 (9.2) |
| Inner Regional | 5470 (51.8) | 1914 (18.1) | 2056 (19.5) | 1121 (10.6) | |
| Outer Regional | 4604 (52.0) | 1666 (18.8) | 1680 (19.0) | 910 (10.3) | |
| Remote/very remote | 1306 (52.7) | 458 (18.5) | 477 (19.2) | 239 (9.6) | |