Like parent, like child? Dietary resemblance in families

Table 4 Full models explaining father-child and mother-child resemblance, all variables entered simultaneously in the model

	Father-child resemblance			Mother-child resemblance
	β estimate	95% confidence interval	Significance for difference	β estimate	95% confidence interval	Significance for difference
Child’s gender
Girl	ref.			ref.
Boy	0.003	−0.025, 0.030	0.857	0.005	−0.022, 0.032	0.719
Child’s age
Median or higher	ref.			ref.
Lower than median	−0.003	−0.026, 0.020	0.800	0.006	−0.016, 0.028	0.588
Number of children living in the same household (in addition to the participating child)
Only child	ref.			ref.
One child	0.002	−0.037, 0.040		−0.024	− 0.061, 0.013
Two or more children	0.004	−0.037, 0.045	0.977	−0.016	−0.055, 0.023	0.418
Father’s education
High	ref.			ref.
Middle	−0.025	−0.078, 0.028		−0.024	−0.075, 0.027
Low	−0.021	−0.079, 0.037	0.648	−0.036	− 0.092, 0.020	0.448
Mother’s education
High	ref.			ref.
Middle	−0.005	−0.055, 0.045		0.004	−0.044, 0.052
Low	−0.030	−0.090, 0.030	0.567	−0.020	− 0.078, 0.039	0.657
Number of family meals as reported by the father	0.003	−0.014, 0.020	0.695	−0.002	−0.018, 0.014	0.819
Number of family meals as reported by the mother	0.015	−0.003, 0.034	0.109	0.022	0.004, 0.040	0.015
Respondent
Father	ref.			ref.
Mother	−0.090	−0.162, − 0.019	0.013	0.062	−0.007, 0.132	0.078

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