Are intentions to change, policy awareness, or health knowledge related to changes in dietary intake following a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in South Africa? A before-and-after study

Table 1 Sociodemographic information for participants with complete survey data

Variable	Pre-tax (n = 2,094)	Post-tax (n = 2,316)	p value*
Variable	%	%	p value*
Male	35.1	34.9	0.897
Female	650.0	650.1	0.897
Diet surveyed on weekday	82.9	83.9	0.264
LSM category¹			< 0.001
LSM 3	1.3	1.7
LSM 4	14.8	19.8
LSM 5	39.0	51.5
LSM 6	39.2	26.3
Missing/incomplete data	5.7	0.7
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	0.207
Age	27.9 (6.0)	27.8 (6.2)	0.207

¹South African Living Standards Measure (LSM) [32]
*p value for difference calculated using Fisher’s exact test and means with two-tailed t-test

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