Table 6 Ability, and odds of having ability, to prepare four dish types without help, National Diet & Nutrition Survey, 2008–09, n = 509
Variable & level | Convenience foods & ready meals | Complete meal from ready-made ingredients | Main dish from basic ingredients | Cake or biscuits from basic ingredients | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% (95 % CI) | Odds ratio (95 % CI) | % (95 % CI) | Odds ratio (95 % CI) | % (95 % CI) | Odds ratio (95 % CI) | % (95 % CI) | Odds ratio (95 % CI) | |
All respondents | 97.6 (95.3–98.7) | -- | 93.1 (90.1–95.3) | -- | 89.2 (85.5–92.1) | -- | 69.0 (64.2–73.4) | -- |
Gender | ||||||||
Men | 95.7 (91.3–97.9) | Reference | 89.2 (83.6–93.0) | Reference | 82.8 (76.1–87.9) | Reference | 47.6 (40.0–54.9) | Reference |
Women | 99.4 (97.1–99.9) | 6.91 (1.28–37.33) | 97.0 (94.0–98.5) | 3.90 (1.65–9.17) | 95.5 (92.1–97.4) | 1.10 (0.40–3.03) | 89.5 (85.1–92.7) | 9.44 (5.77–15.45) |
Age (years) | ||||||||
19–34 | 98.9 (95.6–99.7) | Reference | 95.6 (89.8–98.2) | Reference | 86.0 (77.5–91.6) | Reference | 64.8 (54.7–73.8) | Reference |
35–49 | 99.2 (94.5–99.9) | 1.44 (0.13–16.23) | 97.4 (93.0–99.1) | 1.71 (0.43–6.80) | 91.6 (84.1–95.8) | 1.79 (0.71–4.51) | 79.1 (70.9–85.4) | 2.05 (1.11–3.77) |
50–64 | 94.5 (85.9–98.0) | 0.20 (0.03–1.12) | 90.4 (81.6–95.3) | 0.43 (0.13–1.41) | 89.9 (81.0–95.0) | 1.46 (0.57–3.73) | 67.8 (57.8–76.4) | 1.14 (0.63–2.09) |
> 64 | 97.2 (91.1–99.2) | 0.39 (0.06–2.53) | 87.1 (78.1–92.8) | 0.31 (0.10–0.94) | 89.5 (80.8–94.6) | 1.39 (0.56–3.49) | 62.4 (51.5–72.1) | 0.87 (0.47–1.61) |
NS-SEC | ||||||||
Managerial & prof. | 97.9 (94.5–99.2) | Reference | 94.2 (89.4–96.9) | Reference | 92.3 (87.0–95.6) | Reference | 73.5 (66.1–79.7) | Reference |
Intermediate | 98.1 (92.6–99.5) | 1.12 (0.19–6.43) | 94.2 (85.1–97.8) | 0.98 (0.29–3.37) | 88.5 (77.9–94.4) | 0.64 (0.24–1.70) | 66.9 (55.4–76.7) | 0.73 (0.40–1.33) |
Routine & manual | 96.9 (91.2–98.9) | 0.69 (0.14–3.45) | 91.4 (85.8–94.9) | 0.62 (0.25–1.50) | 86.4 (79.6–91.1) | 0.51 (0.24–1.12) | 65.5 (57.7–72.5) | 0.66 (0.41–1.08) |
Respondent is main food provider | ||||||||
No | 94.7 (88.0–97.8) | Reference | 85.3 (77.3–90.8) | Reference | 74.0 (64.8–81.5) | Reference | 48.7 (39.4–58.0) | Reference |
Yes | 98.9 (97.3–99.6) | 5.15 (1.40–18.89) | 96.9 (94.6–98.3) | 5.46 (2.46–12.09) | 96.6 (93.4–98.1) | 9.86 (4.67–20.83) | 78.6 (73.6–82.9) | 3.87 (2.42–6.18) |