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Table 6 Share of food expenditure on ultra-processed goods of households with at least one overweight or obese child

From: Papua New Guinea agri-food trade and household consumption trends point towards dietary change and increased overweight and obesity prevalence

Share of total food expenditure

Not obese

Obese

t-test

Not overweight

Overweighta

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Panel A: All households with children under 5 years old

All ultra-processed food

7.0%

8.2%

 

6.9%

8.0%

*

 Sugar-sweetened food

0.5%

0.7%

 

0.5%

0.6%

 

 Sugar-sweetened beverage

2.5%

3.4%

**

2.4%

3.3%

***

 High saturated fat food

3.0%

3.1%

 

3.0%

2.9%

 

 Other ultra-processed food

1.0%

1.1%

 

1.0%

1.2%

 

Processed food

5.4%

6.6%

**

5.3%

6.1%

*

Processed culinary ingredients

4.6%

7.5%

***

4.5%

6.2%

***

Minimally or unprocessed

83.1%

77.8%

***

83.3%

79.7%

***

Sample size

1601

121

 

1459

263

 

Panel B: Non-poor (top 60% expenditure distribution)

 All ultra-processed food

8.2%

8.9%

 

7.9%

9.7%

*

  Sugar-sweetened food

0.6%

1.2%

***

0.6%

0.9%

**

  Sugar-sweetened beverage

3.1%

3.5%

 

2.9%

4.3%

***

  High saturated fat food

3.6%

3.2%

 

3.5%

3.5%

 

  Other ultra-processed food

0.9%

1.0%

 

0.9%

0.9%

 

 Processed food

5.6%

5.5%

 

5.5%

6.0%

 

 Processed culinary ingredients

4.4%

5.0%

 

4.4%

5.0%

 

 Minimally or unprocessed

81.9%

80.6%

 

82.2%

79.3%

**

Sample size

851

67

 

785

133

 

Panel C: Poor (bottom 40% expenditure distribution)

 All ultra-processed food

5.7%

7.6%

*

5.7%

6.5%

 

  Sugar-sweetened food

0.4%

0.2%

 

0.4%

0.3%

 

  Sugar-sweetened beverage

1.8%

3.2%

***

1.8%

2.5%

*

  High saturated fat food

2.4%

3.0%

 

2.4%

2.4%

 

  Other ultra-processed food

1.1%

1.2%

 

1.0%

1.4%

 

 Processed food

5.2%

7.5%

***

5.2%

6.2%

 

 Processed culinary ingredients

4.8%

9.5%

***

4.7%

7.2%

***

 Minimally or unprocessed

84.4%

75.3%

***

84.5%

80.0%

***

Sample size

750

54

 

674

130

 
  1. Source: Authors’ calculations using HIES 2009/10
  2. Note: 81 (2.7%) children observations from 79 households were dropped because their height or weight were 3 standard deviation below or above the median value of the same age group, an additional 216 (7.4%) children observations from 194 households were dropped because of biologically implausible weight-for-height z-scores (i.e. z > 5 or z < −5). aOverweight includes obese