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Table 1 Summary statistics of the analytical sample at the city-month-price-tertile level

From: Changes in sugar-sweetened beverage purchases across the price distribution after the implementation of a tax in Mexico: a before-and-after analysis

  

2012–13 (pre-tax)

2014–15 (post-tax)

2014–15 vs 2013–2012

  

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

P-value

SSB purchases (ml/per capita/day)

Low- price SSB

111.27

43.50

98.90

46.58

-12.37

0.00

Middle- price SSB

59.87

46.47

48.02

26.23

-11.84

0.00

High- price SSB

19.25

7.18

14.91

6.90

-4.33

0.00

Contextual variables

Per capita labor income (MP$)

2298.09

270.15

2172.93

291.85

-125.16

0.00

Unemployment rate (%)

5.49

1.18

5.08

1.23

-0.41

0.00

Observations

    

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  1. Population weighted summary statistics. Standard deviations in parentheses. MP: Mexican pesos. Source: Authors’ own analyses and calculations based on data from Nielsen through its Mexico Consumer Panel Service (CPS) for the food and beverage categories for January 2012 – December 2015. The Nielsen Company, 2016. The conclusions drawn from the Nielsen data are those of UNC and do not reflect the views of Nielsen. Nielsen is not responsible for and had no role in, and was not involved in, analyzing and preparing the results reported herein
  2. SSB Sugar-sweetened beverage, SD Standard deviation