TABLE 5.
Ordinary least squares regressions of the Balanced Food Choice Index on 5 explanatory variables1
| Model 12 | Model 22 | Model 33 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explanatory Variable | Unit | Coeff | 95% CI | P Value | Coeff | 95% CI | P Value | Coeff | 95% CI | P Value |
| Meat production | GDP % | −4.0** (1.6) | −7.1, −0.9 | 0.013 | −3.7* (2.1) | −7.9, 0.5 | 0.082 | |||
| Dairy production | GDP % | −2.0 (2.4) | −6.7, 2.7 | 0.390 | −1.0 (2.1) | −5.1, 3.1 | 0.634 | |||
| EPI | 0–100 scale | 0.5*** (0.1) | 0.3, 0.8 | 0.000 | 0.3 (80.2) | −0.2, 0.8 | 0.221 | |||
| Last update FBDG | Years | 0.6 (0.5) | −0.4, 1.5 | 0.244 | 0.4 (0.4) | −0.4, 1.2 | 0.309 | 0.1 (0.6) | −1.1, 1.4 | 0.811 |
| Page length FBDG | Square root of pages | 2.9*** (0.5) | 1.9, 4.0 | 0.000 | 2.8*** (0.5) | 1.9, 3.8 | 0.000 | 3.0*** (0.4) | 2.1, 3.8 | 0.000 |
| Constant | −1,094.6 (951.1) | −2988.2, 799.0 | 0.253 | −824.2 (790.8) | −2394.4, 746.0 | 0.300 | −293.7 (1235.4) | −2754.1, 2166.8 | 0.813 | |
| Observations, n | 83 | 98 | 82 | |||||||
| R 2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||||||
1
Significance levels for the slope estimators for the 2-sided t test with null hypothesis = 0: *P < 0.1. **P < 0.05. ***P < 0.01. Coeff, regression coefficient; EPI, Environmental Performance Index; FBDG, food-based dietary guideline.
2
Models 1 and 2: regular SE in parentheses.
3
Model 3: White-Huber robust SE in parentheses.