Fruit and vegetable consumption across population segments: evidence from a national household survey

Küçük, Nihat; Urak, Faruk; Bilgic, Abdulbaki; Florkowski, Wojciech J.; Kiani, Adiqa K.; Özdemir, Ferda Nur

doi:10.1186/s41043-023-00382-6

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Table 2 Maximum likelihood estimates from the panel random-effects bivariate probit model

From: Fruit and vegetable consumption across population segments: evidence from a national household survey

Variables	Fruits		Vegetables
Variables	Coefficient	Standard Error	Coefficient	Standard Error
Constant	−0.812***	0.103	−0.326***	0.111
Discrete variables
Gender	−0.220***	0.031	−0.451***	0.035
Married	0.089***	0.029	0.191***	0.032
Elementary school	0.304***	0.044	0.398***	0.049
Secondary school	0.479***	0.053	0.448***	0.057
High school	0.386***	0.051	0.396***	0.055
Community college	0.561***	0.067	0.551***	0.072
College	0.426***	0.059	0.445***	0.063
Wage Job	0.034	0.053	0.049	0.056
Employer	−0.041	0.063	0.112*	0.068
Job seekers	−0.079	0.065	0.020	0.070
Retired	0.158**	0.070	0.107	0.077
Homemaker	−0.009	0.057	−0.022	0.062
Overweight	0.013	0.027	0.001	0.030
Obese	0.141***	0.036	0.036	0.039
Morbidly obese	0.126**	0.056	0.133**	0.058
General health insurance	0.082**	0.041	0.024	0.044
Private health insurance	0.052	0.066	0.090	0.069
Cycling	0.197***	0.049	0.023	0.054
Walking 10–29 min	0.026	0.034	0.131***	0.038
Walking 30–59 min	0.102***	0.037	0.225***	0.040
Walking 1–2 h	0.089*	0.046	0.223***	0.049
Walking > 2 h	0.156***	0.059	0.254***	0.067
Resting	0.029	0.024	0.078***	0.027
Moderate physical job	0.063**	0.025	0.108***	0.027
Heavy physical job	0.101*	0.057	0.107*	0.063
Low income	−0.428***	0.056	−0.706***	0.061
High income	0.162***	0.053	0.414***	0.058
Marmara	0.102**	0.048	0.026	0.053
Aegean	−0.390***	0.065	−0.460***	0.071
Mediterranean	−0.421***	0.056	−0.378***	0.061
Black Sea	−0.672***	0.049	−0.934***	0.054
Central Anatolia	−0.020	0.051	−0.054	0.057
Southeastern Anatolia	−0.660***	0.071	−0.928***	0.078
Continuous variables
Age	0.011***	0.001	0.010***	0.001
Sports Time	0.049***	0.008	0.039***	0.010
Tobacco	−0.297***	0.027	−0.108***	0.008
Alcohol	−0.011***	0.004	−0.006	0.029
Number of children under 7	−0.005	0.019	−0.068***	0.004
Number of kids ages 7–14	−0.074***	0.016	−0.048***	0.020
Number of adults	0.001	0.009	0.007	0.018
σ²	1.257***	0.017	1.115	0.017
ρ	−0.749***	0.018	–	–
τ	0.697***	0.011	–	–

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.10

Back to article page

ISSN: 2072-1315

Contact us

Submission enquiries: sathish.venkatesan@springernature.com
General enquiries: info@biomedcentral.com