Effects of selected socio-demographic characteristics on nutrition knowledge and eating behavior of elementary students in two provinces in China

Table 1 Frequency distribution of socio-demographic characteristics among clusters (N = 3526)

Socio-demographic characteristic	Cluster 1 (two-gen/ low-ed)^a		Cluster 2 (two-gen/ high-ed) ^b		Cluster 3 (two-gen/ med-ed)^c		Cluster 4 (three-gen/ high-ed)^d
	n = 858		n = 1072		n = 972		n = 624
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Province
Shangdong	491	57.2	722	67.4	675	69.4	384	61.5
Qinghai	367	42.8	350	32.6	297	30.6	240	38.5
Gender
Male	438	51.0	564	52.6	514	52.9	363	58.2
Female	420	49.0	508	47.4	458	47.1	261	41.8
Education level (father)^e
College or higher	124	14.5	806	75.2	286	29.4	362	58.0
Senior middle	250	29.1	207	19.3	537	55.2	192	30.8
Junior middle	484	56.4	59	5.5	149	15.3	70	11.2
Education level (mother)^e
College or higher	11	1.3	1072	100.0	0	0	376	60.3
Senior middle	4	0.5	0	0	972	100.0	181	29.0
Junior middle	843	98.3	0	0	0	0	67	10.7
Living with parents
Yes	723	84.3	965	90.0	873	89.8	417	66.8
No	135	15.7	107	10.0	99	10.2	207	33.2
Living with grandparents^e
Yes	93	10.8	0	0.0	21	2.2	494	79.2
Occasionally	420	49.0	673	62.8	603	62.0	93	14.9
No	345	40.2	399	37.2	348	35.8	37	5.9
Who mainly cooks^e
Mother	667	77.7	800	74.6	730	75.1	121	19.4
Father	107	12.5	217	20.2	171	17.6	35	5.6
Grandmother	59	6.9	8	0.7	47	4.8	407	65.2
Grandfather	8	0.9	14	1.3	11	1.1	35	5.6
Nannie	8	0.9	23	2.1	12	1.2	12	1.9
Others	9	1.0	10	0.9	1	0.1	14	2.2
Self-reported body weight
Very thin	66	7.7	61	5.7	71	7.3	34	5.4
A little thin	221	25.8	281	26.2	249	25.6	134	21.5
Normal	399	46.5	539	50.3	477	21.5	338	54.2
A little fat	151	17.6	172	16.0	162	16.7	106	17.0
Very fat	21	2.4	19	1.8	13	1.3	12	1.9

^a(two-gen/low-ed) —two-generation family, low-education parents (9 years or less of school); ^b(two-gen/high-ed)—two-generation family, high-education parents (college or higher); ^c (two-gen/med-ed).—two-generation family, medium-education parents (10–12 years of school); ^d(three-gen/high-ed) —three-generation family, high-education parents (college or higher); ^eDistribution between four clusters is statistically significant

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