Expenditures on sugar-sweetened beverages in Jamaica and its association with household budget allocation

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Mean and standard deviation of sociodemographic variables

Variable	No SSB Expenditures	Positive SSB Expenditures^a	Low SSB Expenditures	Medium SSB Expenditures	High SSB Expenditures	Total^b
% of households with positive expenditures SSB	0.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	68.04%
Standard Deviation	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.47
% of households with positive expenditures on water (non SSB)	52.34%	47.66%	53.21%	49.42%	43.07%	12.40%
Standard Deviation	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.33
% of female head of the household	42.02%	43.47%	44.73%	44.24%	41.42%	43.01%
Standard Deviation	0.49	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.49	0.50
% of urban households	50.12%	54.73%	50.39%	54.86%	59.03%	53.25%
Standard Deviation	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.49	0.50
Average age of household head	49.85	46.68	47.54	46.56	45.91	47.69
Standard Deviation	16.66	16.15	16.68	15.82	15.87	16.38
Average household Size	3.38	3.50	3.42	3.46	3.61	3.46
Standard Deviation	2.26	2.31	2.24	2.30	2.39	2.30
% of Women in household	46.53%	47.80%	48.48%	47.89%	47.00%	47.39%
Standard Deviation	0.32	0.31	0.32	0.31	0.30	0.32
% of children in the household (< 18)	26.13%	27.74%	27.84%	27.14%	28.22%	27.23%
Standard Deviation	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.26	0.25	0.26
Number of employed in the household	1.12	1.19	1.11	1.20	1.25	1.17
Standard Deviation	0.92	0.94	0.93	0.94	0.94	0.93
Total annual expenditures	$349,544	$539,001	$391,259	$508,598	$719,724	$478,456
Standard Deviation	337,713	460,664	376,127	410,348	521,135	434,317

Low, medium and high SSB consumption are tertiles of households grouped according to positive expenditures on SSB
^aPositive expenditures include all households that have some expenditures on SSB
^b“Total” includes all households in the sample (8,632 households)

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