Age adjusted mean fruit and vegetable intake (g/day) by deprivation category and social class and educational level for 10321 men and 12241 women aged 39–79 years, of the EPIC-Norfolk cohort, 1993–1997
| Townsend quintiles | p Value for trend* | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| *Test for linearity in one way analysis and GLM. | ||||||||||||
| Men | By social class | Mean | (n) | Mean | (n) | Mean | (n) | Mean | (n) | Mean | (n) | |
| Non-manual | 410 | (1410) | 412 | (1404) | 407 | (1161) | 410 | (1178) | 395 | (886) | 0.34 | |
| Manual | 392 | (712) | 398 | (802) | 391 | (822) | 380 | (885) | 356 | (1061) | <0.001 | |
| By educational level | ||||||||||||
| At least O level | 411 | (1603) | 410 | (1646) | 404 | (1381) | 399 | (1385) | 388 | (1187) | 0.02 | |
| No qualifications | 384 | (519) | 397 | (560) | 391 | (602) | 394 | (678) | 351 | (760) | <0.001 | |
| Women | By social class | |||||||||||
| Non-manual | 495 | (1717) | 496 | (1663) | 491 | (1429) | 494 | (1505) | 495 | (1226) | 0.97 | |
| Manual | 481 | (778) | 475 | (891) | 481 | (898) | 479 | (1000) | 447 | (1134) | 0.002 | |
| By educational level | ||||||||||||
| At least O level | 509 | (1420) | 496 | (1445) | 503 | (1259) | 497 | (1319) | 505 | (1058) | 0.57 | |
| No qualifications | 468 | (1075) | 479 | (1109) | 468 | (1068) | 478 | (1186) | 445 | (1302) | 0.001 | |