Sugar-sweetened beverage affordability and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in a cross section of countries

Table 7 Regression results: sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, affordability and obesity

Dependent variable: prevalence of obesity, POB
Equation (3b)	Ln(·)	Coefficient	Std. Error^a	t-statistic
Per capita consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages	Q	3.27**	0.77	4.27
Per capita consumption of water	QW	0.34	0.64	0.52
Dietary energy supply	DES	15.27**	4.11	3.71
Employment in services	ESE	8.91**	2.35	3.80
Gender inequality index	GII	4.68**	0.91	5.16
Number of physicians	PHY	0.61	0.49	1.24
Constant = 146.91, F-statistic = 48.35 (p < 0.01), Adj. R-squared = 0.67, n = 144
Equation (4b)	Ln(·)	Coefficient	Std. Error^a	t-statistic
Sugar-sweetened beverage affordability	SBA	−3.81**	1.07	−3.57
(Average) Price of water	PW	0.70	1.37	0.51
Dietary energy supply	DES	10.83**	4.00	2.71
Employment in services	ESE	8.93*	3.45	2.59
Gender inequality index	GII	5.21**	0.98	5.32
Number of physicians	PHY	0.60	0.54	1.11
Constant = −93.43, F-statistic = 38.70 (p < 0.01), Adj. R-squared = 0.66, n = 120

Notes: ln(·) is natural log. * and ** denote p < 0.01 and p < 0.05, respectively
^aWhite’s heteroskedasticity-adjusted standard errors

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