Impact of an excise tax on the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in young people living in poorer neighbourhoods of Catalonia, Spain: a difference in differences study

Table 3 Knowledge of the tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, changes in consumption, and reasons for the change reported by the 455 participants in the post-tax sample (2018) in low-income neighbourhoods of Barcelona

	N (%)
Knows of the existence of the tax	407 (83.4%)
Reports change in consumption^a	152 (37.3%)
Direction of change in consumption ^b
Reduction in consumption	117 (77.0%)
Replacement by untaxed beverages	9 (5.9%)
Replacement by own-brand beverages	12 (7.9%)
A combination of the above	14 (9.2%)
Reason for change in consumption ^b
Increase in price	102 (67.1%)
Health awareness	34 (22.4%)
Increase in price and health awareness	12 (7.9%)
Others	4 (2.6%)

^a Percentage calculated with respect to the 407 participants who knew of the existence of the tax
^b Percentage of the 152 participants who reported having changed their consumption of beverages as a result of the tax’s introduction

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