Determinants of Israeli consumers’ decision to use food label information more frequently: a national survey study | Israel Journal of Health Policy Research | Full Text
Table 1 Survey data—frequency of using food labels according to socio-demographic and other characteristics (N = 513)
From: Determinants of Israeli consumers’ decision to use food label information more frequently: a national survey study
Food labels affect buying decisions
Rarely/ Never (N = 117)
Sometimes (N = 92)
Often/ Always (N = 304)
Women 49.1% 18.3% 19.0% 62.7%*
> 61 24.8% 22.6% 16.9% 60.5%
Jewish 78.6% 23.8% 21.1% 55.1%***
Arab 21.4% 19.1% 6.4% 74.5%
Married 72.0% 19.1% 6.4% 74.5%*
Not married 28.0% 28.0% 20.3% 51.7%
Up to 12 years 39.4% 28.9% 18.4% 52.7%**
More than 12 years 60.6% 18.9% 17.6% 63.5%**
Tel Aviv and the center 48.3% 20.5% 23.4% 56.1%**
2 or less 36.3% 20.5% 20.0% 59.5%
3 and more 63.7% 24.4% 16.4% 59.3%
Maintaining a normal body weighta
Not at all/ small/medium extent 35.7% 32.4% 18.1% 49.5%***
Large/very large extent 64.3% 17.7% 17.7% 64.6%
Responsible for shopping
No 29.7% 27.6% 20.4% 52.0%*
Showing interest in healthy food intake
Slightly/ Moderately 30.8% 45.9% 23.6% 30.6%***
Very much 69.2% 12.7% 15.3% 72.0%
Eat salty products
Rarely/never/ sometimes 79.6% 19.9% 19.2% 60.9%***
Often/always 20.4% 34.6% 13.5% 51.9%
Frequency of eating sweets
Rarely/never/ sometimes 68.0% 19.8% 17.2% 62.9%**
Frequency of eating processed foods
Often/always 9.4% 43.8% 16.7% 39.6%
Maintains a balanced and healthy diet
Two-sided p-value: ***p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1
a5-level scale ranging from (1) “not at all” to (5) “very much”