TABLE 3.

Sociodemographic characteristics of participants from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico who participated in the International Food Policy Study of 2018 (n = 22,824)¹

	Australia		Canada		Mexico		United Kingdom		United States
	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	P value2
Age group	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
18–29 years	21.84	20.28–23.47	19.78	18.28–21.36	30.20	28.68–31.76	19.67	18.41–20.98	21.42	19.96–22.95
30–44 years	26.66	25.11–28.28	24.89	23.43–26.42	32.09	30.51–33.73	24.62	23.29–25.00	24.93	23.46–26.47
45–59 years	24.35	22.89–25.86	25.80	24.27–27.39	28.23	26.42–30.11	25.80	24.40–27.25	25.54	23.97–27.18
≥60 years	27.15	25.75–28.60	29.53	27.93–31.19	9.48	8.23–10.89	29.92	28.56–31.32	28.11	26.62–29.64
Sex	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.700
Male	49.10	47.35–50.86	49.32	47.52–51.12	47.57	45.75–49.40	48.82	47.25–50.40	48.71	46.95–50.48
Female	50.90	49.14–52.65	50.68	48.89–52.48	52.43	50.60–54.25	51.18	49.60–52.75	51.29	49.52–53.05
Education level (n = 22,755)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
Low	42.08	40.30–43.89	42.50	40.59–44.42	19.91	18.48–21.42	48.59	46.99–50.18	58.8	57.20–60.38
Medium	32.22	30.67–33.82	33.25	31.73–34.80	13.24	11.95–14.63	23.06	21.89–24.28	9.77	9.13–10.45
High	25.69	24.32–27.12	24.25	23.03–25.52	66.86	65.07–68.60	28.35	27.17–29.57	31.43	30.05–32.85
Ethnicity	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
Majority	75.49	73.63–77.26	79.30	77.79–80.72	78.80	76.10–80.50	88.81	87.67–89.86	75.26	73.70–76.75
Minority	24.51	22.74–26.37	20.70	19.28–22.21	21.20	19.50–23.01	11.19	10.14–12.33	24.74	23.25–26.30
Income adequacy level (n = 22,642)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
Very difficult	8.87	7.89–9.95	8.88	7.80–10.08	12.22	10.95–13.63	6.91	6.09–7.83	9.55	8.50–10.73
Difficult	19.39	18.05–20.80	19.57	18.10–21.12	31.73	30.02–33.49	18.20	16.98–19.48	20.21	18.77–21.72
Neither	37.45	35.75–39.18	37.09	35.35–38.86	38.79	37.03–40.59	36.59	35.07–38.13	34.21	32.54–35.91
Easy	23.33	21.90–24.82	22.16	20.77–23.61	13.81	12.65–15.05	24.37	23.07–25.72	21.52	20.19–22.91
Very easy	10.97	9.94–12.09	12.31	11.28–13.42	3.45	2.87–4.15	13.94	12.95–15.00	14.51	13.31–15.80
Language	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
English	100	—	82.15	80.77–83.46	0	—	100	—	91.09	90.00–92.05
French	0	—	17.85	16.54–19.23	0	—	0	—	0	—
Spanish	0	—	0	—	100	—	0	—	8.91	7.94–10.00
Occupation (n = 22,713)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
Paid job	49.75	47.99–51.50	46.82	45.05–48.61	69.55	67.75–71.29	47.01	45.44–48.58	43.56	41.84–45.30
Looking for job	8.48	7.49–9.60	7.25	6.22–8.43	5.16	4.35–6.10	6.39	5.59–7.29	7.5	6.53–8.59
Attending school	3.17	2.52–3.99	4.51	3.78–5.36	7.33	6.54–8.19	4.36	3.77–5.03	3.97	3.30–4.76
Household	13.45	12.25–14.75	10.31	9.17–11.57	11.73	10.48–13.11	10.62	9.63–11.69	16.51	15.15–17.96
Retired	20.20	18.93–21.53	24.25	22.76–25.80	4.39	3.52–5.47	23.24	22.01–24.53	20.77	19.41–22.20
Caregiving for others	4.94	4.25–5.74	6.86	5.84–8.04	1.84	1.38–2.45	8.38	7.46–9.41	7.7	6.71–8.82
BMI categories (n = 19,860)3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	<0.001
Underweight	3.56	2.86–4.43	3.65	2.97–4.48	2.44	1.92–3.11	3.71	3.11–4.43	3.91	3.18–4.81
Normal weight	41.87	40.02–43.74	37.38	35.57–39.23	45.82	43.88–47.78	42.84	41.14–44.56	34.53	32.81–36.30
Overweight	30.38	28.71–32.12	32.00	30.27–33.78	33.97	32.15–35.83	32.89	31.30–34.52	31.04	29.37–32.77
Obesity	24.18	22.67–25.77	26.97	25.29–28.71	17.77	16.29–19.35	20.56	19.17–22.02	30.52	28.81–32.28

¹Data were weighted.

²Pearson χ2 tests were calculated to determine differences by countries and sociodemographic characteristics.

³The BMI categories were underweight (<18.5 kg/m²), normal weight (18.5 to 24.9 kg/m²), overweight (25.0 to 29.9 kg/m²), and obesity (>30 kg/m²).