Table 4.
Descriptive statistics.
| Questionnaire N = 668 |
Diary N = 59 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Mean (SD) | 43.1 (19.8) | 40.3 (17.4) |
| Gender | male | 36% | 21% |
| female | 64% | 79% | |
| Household manager | yes | 81% | 94% |
| no | 19% | 6% | |
| Household size | M | 2.4 persons | 2.3 persons |
| 1 PHH | 23% | 21% | |
| 2 PHH | 44% | 46% | |
| 3 PHH | 15% | 21% | |
| 4 PHH | 12% | 8% | |
| more than 5 PHH | 6% | 4% | |
| children > 14 years | 15% | 20% | |
| persons < 65 years | 20% | 14% | |
| Level of education | secondary modern school (school year 5 to 9 in Germany) |
6% | 4% |
| secondary school (school year 5 to 10 in Germany) |
12% | 2% | |
| final secondary-school examinations (qualifying for university) |
24% | 21% | |
| qualification/formation | 22% | 19% | |
| specialist | 5% | 0% | |
| bachelor | 9% | 25% | |
| master/state examination | 21% | 29% | |
| Net household income | <500 € | 9% | 8% |
| 500–1000 € | 21% | 29% | |
| 1000–2000 € | 23% | 16% | |
| 2000–3000 € | 19% | 20% | |
| 3000–4000 € | 14% | 10% | |
| >4000 € | 13% | 18% | |
| Food spending | <100 € | 3% | 4% |
| 100–300 € | 38% | 37% | |
| 300–500 € | 41% | 40% | |
| 500–1000 € | 17% | 17% | |
| >1000 € | 1% | 2% | |
| Diet | not vegetarian (meat-eating) | 80% | 67% |
| pescetarian (no meat, but fish-eating) | 4% | 13% | |
| vegetarian | 9% | 12% | |
| vegan | 2% | 4% | |
| others | 6% | 4% |