Does cultural capital contribute to educational inequalities in food consumption in the Netherlands? A cross-sectional analysis of the GLOBE-2011 survey

Table 2 Study sample characteristics: demographic factors, and cultural, social and economic capital by educational level

		Educational level
	Total	1-low	2-midlow	3-midhigh	4-high
	(N = 2953)^a	(n = 263)^a	(n = 1041)^a	(n = 678)^a	(n = 971)^a
	%^b	%^b	%^b	%^b	%^b
Sex
Men	43.3	41.4	32.9	44.5	51.8
Women	56.7	58.6	67.1	55.5	48.2
Marital status
Married, registered partnership	74.9	63.2	72.4	78.6	76.5
Single, divorced, widowed	24.6	34.6	27.2	21.0	23.2
Missing	0.5	2.2	0.4	0.4	0.3
Ethnic background^c
Dutch	84.5	64.9	85.4	87.5	84.9
Other	10.4	17.8	8.5	10.2	10.9
Missing	5.1	17.3	6.0	2.3	4.2
Age, mean, in years (SD)	56.4 (13.0)	66.0 (12.3)	61.8 (10.7)	52.9 (12.2)	52.6 (12.9)
Total cultural capital
Low	39.1	81.6	53.6	38.3	19.6
Mid	24.4	7.6	27.0	24.2	25.1
High	36.4	10.3	19.3	37.5	55.2
Missing	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.1
Institutionalised cultural capital
Low	39.4	53.5	60.9	36.2	20.3
Mid	20.1	1.6	11.4	26.8	26.0
High	30.3	9.2	12.5	30.1	49.8
Missing	10.2	35.7	15.1	6.9	4.0
Objectivised cultural capital
Low	19.1	52.7	22.2	16.2	12.6
Mid	23.7	17.2	25.8	24.8	22.1
High	56.0	24.2	50.	58.2	64.7
Missing	1.3	5.9	1.6	0.8	0.6
Incorporated cultural capital
Low	29.9	59.7	35.5	28.4	21.0
Mid	38.4	26.9	42.1	40.4	35.7
High	31.5	12.9	22.2	31.3	43.1
Missing	0.2	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.3
Total social capital
Low	32.0	53.0	35.0	31.4	26.2
Mid	32.6	28.6	34.0	31.3	33.1
High	35.4	18.4	31.0	37.0	40.8
Missing	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total economic capital
Low	36.5	80.0	50.2	36.7	16.8
Mid	35.3	14.6	31.4	36.2	41.6
High	27.9	5.4	17.8	27.1	41.3
Missing	0.3	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.3

^aAll numbers (N) are unweighted and reflect the actual numbers of participants in the dataset
^bAll percentages (%) are weighted and thereby represent the prevalence rates as they existed in the population of Eindhoven of 2004, which is the source population. The weight factors were calculated from the distribution of the characteristics in a random sample drawn from the municipal registry in Eindhoven, October 2004
^cDutch: both parents of the respondent were born in the Netherlands (definition by Statistics Netherlands). Other: at least one parent of the respondent was not born in the Netherlands

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