Table 1 Summary of participant demographic data.

From: The distribution of school-aged adolescents’ free sugar intake across the day: A cross-sectional study

 

Year 7

Year 9

Year 10

Total

Number (%)

736 (32.38)

796 (35.02)

741 (32.60)

2273 (100.00)

Mean Age (SD)

11.99 (0.36)

13.97 (0.38)

14.97 (0.36)

13.65 (1.28)

Gender (%)

 Male

296 (40.22)

315 (39.57)

317 (42.78)

928 (40.83)

 Female

418 (56.79)

456 (57.29)

395 (53.31)

1269 (55.83)

 Othera/missing

22 (2.99)

25 (3.14)

29 (3.91)

76 (3.34)

Index of Multiple Deprivation Quintile (%)

 1 (most deprived)

185 (25.14)

208 (26.13)

180 (24.29)

573 (25.21)

 2

135 (18.34)

131 (16.46)

117 (15.79)

383 (16.85)

 3

156 (21.20)

147 (18.47)

158 (21.32)

461 (20.28)

 4

146 (19.84)

154 (19.35)

152 (20.51)

452 (19.89)

 5 (least deprived)

114 (15.49)

156 (19.60)

134 (18.08)

404 (17.77)

Ethnicity (%)

 White

507 (68.89)

553 (69.47)

516 (69.64)

1576 (69.34)

 Asian

116 (15.76)

118 (14.82)

125 (16.87)

359 (15.79)

 Black

36 (4.89)

48 (6.03)

39 (5.26)

123 (5.41)

 Mixed

37 (5.03)

53 (6.66)

38 (5.13)

128 (5.63)

 Otherb/missing

40 (5.43)

24 (3.02)

23 (3.10)

87 (3.83)

Receiving a Free School Meal (FSM)

 Yes

83 (11.28)

112 (14.07)

74 (9.99)

269 (11.83)

 No

430 (58.42)

491 (61.68)

471 (63.56)

1392 (61.24)

 Don’t know/ missing

223 (30.30)

193 (24.25)

196 (26.45)

612 (26.92)

  1. aIncluded free-text descriptions of non-binary, genderfluid, agender, gender-queer and questioning
  2. bIncluded Kurdish, English with African backgrounds, Middle Eastern – Persian, English, Arab and British and Asian/Dutch