Anthony Worsley|Roswitha Blaschea|Kylie Ball|David Crawford
The relationship between education and food consumption in the 1995 Australian National Nutrition Survey
Deakin University|Deakin University|Deakin University|Deakin University
assess relationship education intake variety individual foods well groups foods australian men women different age groupscrosssectional national survey freeliving men womena sample 2501 men 2739 women aged 18 years completed national nutrition survey nns 1995information frequency consumption 88 food items obtained using foodfrequency questionnaire nationwide nutrition survey irregular regular consumers foods identified according whether consumed individual foods less per month relationship single foods index education postschool qualifications vocational university analysed via contingency table chisquare statistics men women food group variety scores derived assigning individual foods conventional food group taxonomies summing dichotomised intake scores individual foods within food group twoway analyses variance education age groups performed food variety scores men women separatelywhile universityeducated men women consumed many individual foods regularly lesseducated people less likely regular consumers several meat products relationship education food consumption less apparent individual food scores aggregated food group scores universityeducated men women exhibited higher scores total food group variety educational groupshigher education associated regular consumption wider variety foods aggregation individual food consumption indices food variety scores may mask apparent effects educational background food consumption