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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants

From: Parents’ and teachers’ views of the promotion of healthy eating in Australian primary schools

 

Parents

Teachers

(n = 19)

(n = 17)

Gender

 Female

18

12

 Male

1

5

School type

 Government

11

13

 Independent

5

3

 Catholic

3

1

Education

 PhD

2

 Masters/Graduate Diploma

5

6

 Bachelor

8

11

 Diploma

4

Geolocation

 Melbourne (major city)

17

16

 Regional areas of Victoria

2

1

Ethnicity

 Australian

6

15

 Othera

13

2

Teaching experience (in years)

 0–5

NA

6

 5 to 10 years

3

 10 to 15 years

3

 15–20

2

  > 20 years

3

  1. a‘Other’ denotes parents from Chilean, Turkish, Israeli, Japanese, Indonesian, New Zealander, Singaporean, Italian, Vietnamese, Polish, Persian, Swedish, Taiwanese backgrounds. Teachers from non-Australian backgrounds were from Indian and Turkish backgrounds