Factors associated with food safety compliance among street food vendors in Can Tho city, Vietnam: implications for intervention activity design and implementation

Table 4 Potential factors affecting the compliance of street food vendors to ten food safety and hygiene criteria

Items	Beta	IRR	SD	t-value	p-value
Bivariate model
Gender					0.976
Age					0.002
Education level (category variable)					0.000
Total business capital					0.000
Total area in use for business					0.000
Mobile street food vendor					0.000
Duration of business operation					0.205
Receiving food safety training					0.000
Multivariate model 1 ^a
Constant	3.910	49.899	0.570	6.866	0.000
Age	-0.121	0.886	0.109	-1.111	0.268
Education level	0.284	1.328	0.091	3.108	0.002
Total business capital	0.006	1.006	0.002	2.992	0.003
Total area in use for business	0.010	1.010	0.003	3.416	0.001
Mobile street food vendor	-0.628	0.534	0.234	-2.686	0.008
Duration of business operation	0.007	1.007	0.018	0.388	0.698
R ²		20,9%
p -value		0.000
Multivariate model 2 ^b
Constant	3.237	25.457	0.527	6.144	0.000
Age	-0.093	0.911	0.099	-0.940	0.348
Education level	0.205	1.228	0.084	2.444	0.015
Total business capital	0.004	1.004	0.002	2.171	0.031
Total area in use for business	0.007	1.007	0.003	2.604	0.010
Mobile street food vendor	-0.604	0.547	0.213	-2.830	0.005
Duration of business operation	0.004	1.004	0.016	0.246	0.806
Receiving food safety training	1.580	4.855	0.205	7.700	0.000
R ²		34.4%
p -value		0.000

^aAdjusted for age, education level, total business capital, total area in use, type of vendor and year of business operation; ^bAdjusted for all variables in Model 1 plus Awareness of the need for food safety training; IRR Incidence Rate Ratio; SD Standard Deviation

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