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 6 Maximum likelihood estimates from the 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	−0.654***	0.088	−0.315***	0.088
Discrete variables
Gender	−0.129***	0.027	−0.256***	0.027
Married	0.057**	0.025	0.082***	0.025
Elementary school	0.289***	0.036	0.327***	0.036
Secondary school	0.406***	0.043	0.367***	0.044
High school	0.376***	0.043	0.366***	0.043
Community college	0.496***	0.057	0.477***	0.057
College	0.437***	0.049	0.413***	0.049
Wage Job	−0.038	0.046	−0.057	0.046
Employer	−0.056	0.055	0.017	0.054
Job seekers	−0.130**	0.054	−0.110**	0.053
Retired	0.038	0.060	−0.038	0.060
Homemaker	−0.036	0.049	−0.075	0.049
Overweight	0.048**	0.024	0.066***	0.024
Obese	0.116***	0.030	0.091***	0.031
Morbidly obese	0.110**	0.046	0.177***	0.047
General health insurance	0.041	0.035	−0.014	0.036
Private health insurance	0.067	0.057	0.096*	0.057
Cycling	0.147***	0.044	0.032	0.044
Walking 10–29 min	−0.075**	0.029	−0.007	0.030
Walking 30–59 min	0.018	0.031	0.096***	0.032
Walking 1–2 h	−0.034	0.039	0.058	0.039
Walking > 2 h	0.054	0.051	0.091*	0.051
Resting	0.033	0.021	0.072***	0.021
Moderate physical job	0.072***	0.022	0.109***	0.022
Heavy physical job	0.060	0.051	0.097*	0.051
Low income	−0.246***	0.047	−0.328***	0.048
High income	0.058	0.047	0.171***	0.047
Marmara	0.088**	0.041	0.036	0.041
Aegean	−0.183***	0.055	−0.201***	0.055
Mediterranean	−0.229***	0.048	−0.106**	0.048
Black Sea	−0.389***	0.041	−0.453***	0.041
Central Anatolia	0.032	0.044	−0.019	0.044
Southeastern Anatolia	−0.375***	0.060	−0.396***	0.060
Continuous variables
Age	0.009***	0.001	0.007***	0.001
Sports Time	0.034***	0.007	0.028***	0.007
Tobacco	−0.222***	0.023	−0.067***	0.024
Alcohol	−0.008**	0.004	−0.002	0.004
Number of children under 7	−0.009	0.016	−0.038**	0.016
Number of kids ages 7–14	−0.026*	0.014	−0.001	0.014
Number of adults	0.004	0.008	0.005	0.008
τ	0.733***	0.007	–	–

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

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