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Table 1 Sociodemographic and other characteristics of Kids’Cam participants and schools

From: Children’s everyday exposure to food marketing: an objective analysis using wearable cameras

Sociodemographic variable

Group

N (%)

Child participants (total n = 168)

Ethnicity

NZ European

66 (39.3)

Māori

60 (35.7)

Pacific

42 (25.0)

School decile

Low (1–3)

62 (36.9)

Medium (4–7)

55 (32.7)

High (8–10)

51 (30.2)

Age (years)*

11

13 (8.0)

12

122 (75.3)

13

26 (16.1)

14

1 (0.6)

Gender

Female

88 (52.7)

Male

80 (47.3)

NZiDep *

1

52 (32.1)

2

33 (20.4)

3

25 (15.4)

4

26 (16.1)

5

26 (16.1)

BMI**

Underweight

9 (5.4)

Healthy

87 (52.1)

Overweight

46 (27.5)

Obese

25 (15.0)

School details (n = 16)

  

Location

 

Wellington

6 (37.5)

Porirua

6 (37.5)

Hutt Valley

4 (25.0)

School decile***

 

Low (1–3)

7 (43.8)

Medium (4–7)

3 (18.8)

High (8–10)

6 (37.5)

  1. * Age and NZiDep missing for 6 participants (questionnaire not completed)
  2. ** BMI missing for 1 participant as child declined to be measured
  3. *** Some schools were sampled multiple times for a particular ethnicity/school decile stratum in accordance with sampling probability-proportional-to-size