Understanding the influence of physical resources and social supports on primary food providers’ snack food provision: a discrete choice experiment

Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of primary food providers and children (n = 225)

Characteristic	Parent	Characteristic	Child
Age, years (mean, SD)	35.3 (3.8)	Age, years (mean, SD)	5.2 (1.3)
Sex (%, count)		Sex (%, count)
Male	0.4 (1)	Male	49.3 (111)
Female	99.6 (224)	Female	50.7 (114)
Weight status^a (%, count)		Weight status (%, count)
Underweight	1.8 (4)	Underweight	13.9 (31)
Healthy weight	39.6 (86)	Healthy weight	55.6 (124)
Overweight	33.2 (72)	Overweight	15.2 (34)
Obesity	25.3 (55)	Obesity	15.2 (34)
Family structure (%, count)		Weight and/or height measured in past 6 months (%, count)	73.8 (166)
Couple with a child	13.8 (31)
Couple with children	80.9 (182)
One parent family with a child	0.9 (2)
One parent family with children	1.8 (4)
Other family type	2.7 (6)
SEIFA^b Index of Relative Advantage and Disadvantage(%, count)		Frequency of social occasions in past week (median, IQR)	5 (4)
Lower (deciles 1 to 5)	40.4 (91)	Frequency of select celebratory occasions in past week (median, IQR)	0 (1)
Higher (deciles 6 to 10)	59.1 (133)
Parent education (%, count)
Completed high school or less	6.7 (15)
Tech or trade	20.9 (47)
Tertiary degree	35.6 (80)
Postgraduate degree	36.9 (83)
Parent employment (%, count)
Employed full time	18.2 (41)
Employed part time	51.6 (116)
Not working / homemaker	30.2 (68)
Ancestry^c (%, count)
Australian	48.0 (108)
English	45.8 (103)
Other	26.6 (60)
Scottish	14.2 (32)
Irish	13.3 (30)
German	6.2 (14)
Italian	5.3 (12)

^aMissing anthropometric responses for primary food providers (n = 8) and for children (n = 2)
^bSEIFA, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas; a lower value is reflective of greater disadvantage. Missing SEIFA (n = 1)
^cParticipants could select up to two ancestries, therefore percentages exceed 100

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