Food consumption patterns in the Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional telephone survey

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Demographic comparison showing percent of residents and survey respondents per category (except where noted) in the Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, November 2005 – March 2006

	Waterloo Region Residents (n = 438,515)	Survey Respondents (n = 2,332)
Sex
Male	49.2	35.6*
Female	50.8	64.4*
Age (years)
Mean	---	41.4
Median	35.3	40.0
0–12	17.9	7.7*
13–17	7.2	6.4
18–24	9.8	8.8
25–54	45.5	48.3*
55–64	8.4	13.0*
65+	11.3	15.8*
Cultural group ^†
North American	---	65.1
European	---	11.4
African	---	0.2
Mediterranean	---	0.2
Asian	---	5.7
Native North American/Aboriginal	---	0.2
South American	---	0.8
Austral-Asian	---	0.04
Education
No high school diploma	27.0	27.8
High school diploma	14.8	14.1
Some college or university	18.3	21.0*
College or trade diploma	28.0	14.1*
University, graduate, or professional	18.4	23.1*
Total household income
<$20,000	13.6	9.9*
>$20,000 to <$40,000	20.4	17.0*
>$40,000 to <$60,000	19.8	20.3
>$60,000 to <$80,000	17.3	16.5
>$80,000 to <$100,000	12.0	15.8*
>$100,000	17.0	20.5*
Residence ^‡
City or urban area	---	72.9
Suburban area	---	13.8
Town or village	---	9.1
Rural area	---	4.3
Mean household size	2.7	2.9
Median household size	---	3.0
Mean # children in household	---	0.9

* Proportion of respondents significantly different than the Waterloo Region residents, P < 0.05
^† Survey respondents reported with which cultural group they most identified. No comparable information was available from the 2001 Canadian Census.
^‡ No comparable information was available from the 2001 Canadian Census.

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