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Table 1 General characteristics of the sample by country

From: Quality of the diet during the COVID-19 pandemic in 11 Latin-American countries

 

Argentina

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

Guatemala

Mexico

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Test stat

P value

1422

1033

573

576

577

963

1280

617

609

746

861

Sex

Female

1247 (87.69)

826 (79.96)

464 (80.98)

439 (76.22)

404 (70.02)

702 (72.9)

1046 (81.72)

439 (71.15)

492 (80.79)

561 (75.2)

737 (85.6)

Chisq. (10 df) = 179.704

 < 0.001

Male

175 (12.31)

207 (20.04)

109 (19.02)

137 (23.78)

173 (29.98)

261 (27.1)

234 (18.28)

178 (28.85)

117 (19.21)

185 (24.8)

124 (14.4)

  

Age

Median(IQR)

38 (31,47)

31 (26,40)

31 (24,39)

43 (31,52)

29 (23,40)

31 (24,45)

31 (25,41)

28 (23,39)

34 (29,41)

36 (28,46)

41 (31,52)

Kruskal–Wallis test

 < 0.001

Education level

Basic/secondary

216 (15.19)

70 (6.78)

42 (7.33)

54 (9.38)

39 (6.76)

69 (7.17)

50 (3.91)

56 (9.08)

26 (4.27)

31 (4.16)

135 (15.68)

Chisq. (10 df) = 215.689

 < 0.001

University

1206 (84.81)

963 (93.22)

531 (92.67)

522 (90.62)

538 (93.24)

894 (92.83)

1230 (96.09)

561 (90.92)

583 (95.73)

715 (95.84)

726 (84.32)

  

Work

No

381 (26.79)

384 (37.17)

204 (35.6)

140 (24.31)

230 (39.86)

216 (22.43)

455 (35.55)

301 (48.78)

189 (31.03)

256 (34.32)

217 (25.2)

Chisq. (10 df) = 213.622

 < 0.001

Yes

1041 (73.21)

649 (62.83)

369 (64.4)

436 (75.69)

347 (60.14)

747 (77.57)

825 (64.45)

316 (51.22)

420 (68.97)

490 (65.68)

644 (74.8)

  

Basic services

Some

140 (9.85)

42 (4.07)

25 (4.36)

259 (44.97)

35 (6.07)

83 (8.62)

20 (1.56)

30 (4.86)

89 (14.61)

113 (15.15)

117 (13.59)

Chisq. (10 df) = 996.219

 < 0.001

All

1282 (90.15)

991 (95.93)

548 (95.64)

317 (55.03)

542 (93.93)

880 (91.38)

1260 (98.44)

587 (95.14)

520 (85.39)

633 (84.85)

744 (86.41)

  

Confinement

Yes

1387 (97.54)

968 (93.71)

555 (96.86)

545 (94.62)

551 (95.49)

903 (93.77)

1199 (93.67)

590 (95.62)

587 (96.39)

720 (96.51)

773 (89.78)

Chisq. (10 df) = 87.879

 < 0.001

No

35 (2.46)

65 (6.29)

18 (3.14)

31 (5.38)

26 (4.51)

60 (6.23)

81 (6.33)

27 (4.38)

22 (3.61)

26 (3.49)

88 (10.22)

  

Weight change

Did not changed

673 (47.33)

368 (35.62)

275 (47.99)

277 (48.09)

234 (40.55)

435 (45.17)

571 (44.61)

288 (46.68)

226 (37.11)

324 (43.43)

432 (50.17)

Chisq. (20 df) = 283.378

 < 0.001

Increased

572 (40.23)

502 (48.6)

163 (28.45)

205 (35.59)

198 (34.32)

368 (38.21)

456 (35.62)

177 (28.69)

315 (51.72)

280 (37.53)

367 (42.62)

  

Decreased

177 (12.45)

163 (15.78)

135 (23.56)

94 (16.32)

145 (25.13)

160 (16.61)

253 (19.77)

152 (24.64)

68 (11.17)

142 (19.03)

62 (7.2)

  
  1. For numerical variables, mean/median and standard deviation or interquartil range are showed (depending on the distribution of the variable). For categorical variables, frequency and percentages are showed