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Table 3 Association between 100% fruit juice consumption and respondent characteristics (N = 2732)

From: Who drinks sugar sweetened beverages and juice? An Australian population study of behaviour, awareness and attitudes

 

100% fruit juice consumption in past week

Logistic regression

None

1 or more

Pearson χ2

OR

95% CI

%

%

P-value

(N = 2702)

Lower

Upper

100% fruit juice consumption in past weekc

64.7

35.0

    

Demographics

Gender

  

< 0.001

   

 Male

60.4

39.6

 

1.5***

1.2

1.8

 Female

69.2

30.8

    

Age (years)

  

0.001

   

 15–24

60.5

39.5

 

1.2

0.9

1.5

 25–44

61.3

38.7

 

1.2

0.9

1.5

 45–64

67.7

32.3

 

1.0

0.8

1.2

 65 and over

69.5

30.5

 

1

  

Highest qualificationa

  

0.017

   

 High School or less

66.5

33.5

 

0.9

0.6

1.2

 Vocational

66.2

33.8

 

0.8

0.7

1.0

 University

60.3

39.7

 

1

  

Disadvantage quintile

  

0.002

   

 Quintile 1 (most disadvantaged)

70.8

29.2

 

0.8

0.6

1.2

 Quintile 2

65.4

34.6

 

1.0

0.7

1.4

 Quintile 3

63.6

36.4

 

1.1

0.8

1.5

 Quintile 4

60.0

40.0

 

1.3

0.9

1.7

 Quintile 5 (least disadvantaged)

64.1

35.9

 

1

  

Remoteness

  

0.006

   

 Metropolitan

63.4

36.6

 

1

  

 Inner Regional

64.1

35.9

 

1.0

0.6

1.5

 Outer Regional

72.9

27.1

 

0.7

0.5

1.1

 Remote/very remote

67.7

32.3

 

0.9

0.6

1.3

BMI and behavioural risk factors

Body Mass Index (BMI)c

  

0.205

   

 Underweight or healthy

64.5

35.5

 

1

  

 Overweight

62.9

37.1

 

1.2

0.9

1.5

 Obese

68.4

31.6

 

1.1

0.8

1.3

 Don’t know height or weight

65.2

34.8

 

1.1

0.7

1.8

Physical activity (past week)b

  

< 0.001

   

 None

73.0

27.0

 

1

  

 1 to 6 days

64.2

35.8

 

1.3

1.0

1.9

 Everyday

60.6

39.4

 

1.8***

1.3

2.5

Fast food consumption (past week) a

  

0.006

   

 None

67.6

32.4

 

1

  

 Once

61.2

38.8

 

1.2

1.0

1.5

 Two or more times

62.8

37.2

 

1.1

0.9

1.5

Smoking status

  

< 0.001

   

 Current smoker

64.5

35.5

 

0.9

0.7

1.2

 Ex-smoker

71.7

28.3

 

0.6***

0.5

0.8

 Never smoked

61.4

38.6

 

1

  

100% fruit juice versus SSBsa

  

< 0.001

   

 More sugar

75.3

24.7

 

1

  

 Less sugar

60.9

39.1

 

2.1***

1.6

2.9

 The same

65.2

34.8

 

1.7**

1.2

2.5

 Don’t know

72.1

27.9

 

1.4

0.8

2.3

  1. Logistic regression outcome variable: Any 100% fruit juice consumption in past week = 1, none = 0
  2. aNot stated = 0.1%, bnot stated = 0.2%, cnot stated = 0.3%
  3. ***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05