Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey 2018: main report - revised 2020

Published: 21 February 2020
From: Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
Part of: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781839605550

An amended version of the Scottish Health Survey 2018 main report.

Scottish Health Survey

Table 5.3: Child fruit and vegetable consumption, 2008 to 2018

Base: Aged 2-15		2008 - 2018
Portions per day		2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Portions per day		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Boys	None	11	9	11	10	12	11	10	9	10	10	11
	Less than 1 portion	4	5	5	4	6	6	5	6	4	6	5
	1 portion or more but less than 2	21	22	22	22	22	21	23	22	23	20	24
	2 portions or more but less than 3	23	23	21	20	23	21	22	21	22	21	16
	3 portions or more but less than 4	16	17	18	19	17	17	15	20	17	17	17
	4 portions or more but less than 5	11	11	10	12	9	11	11	12	12	11	12
	5 portions or more	14	14	12	13	12	13	13	12	11	15	16
	Mean	2.7	2.7	2.6	2.7	2.5	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.8	2.8
	SE of the mean	0.09	0.06	0.09	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.11	0.09	0.08	0.11	0.09
	Standard deviation	2.03	1.91	1.99	1.91	1.97	2.03	2.17	1.96	1.97	2.29	2.23
	Median	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.5	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.5	2.5
Girls	None	8	9	10	9	9	10	9	5	8	9	9
	Less than 1 portion	4	5	5	5	2	4	4	6	5	6	5
	1 portion or more but less than 2	17	21	19	22	19	20	21	21	19	17	20
	2 portions or more but less than 3	25	18	25	21	23	21	22	24	22	21	24
	3 portions or more but less than 4	21	17	17	18	18	21	19	20	20	20	16
	4 portions or more but less than 5	11	14	12	14	15	11	12	11	11	11	11
	5 portions or more	13	16	13	12	14	13	14	13	15	16	15
	Mean	2.9	2.9	2.7	2.8	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.9	2.9	2.8
	SE of the mean	0.09	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.10	0.10
	Standard deviation	2.07	2.04	1.85	2.00	2.00	1.97	2.00	1.92	2.02	2.07	2.17
	Median	2.7	2.7	2.5	2.5	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.5	2.7	2.7	2.5
All children	None	10	9	11	9	11	10	10	7	9	10	10
	Less than 1 portion	4	5	5	4	4	5	4	6	4	6	5
	1 portion or more but less than 2	19	22	21	22	21	21	22	21	21	18	22
	2 portions or more but less than 3	24	20	23	20	23	21	22	22	22	21	20
	3 portions or more but less than 4	19	17	17	18	17	19	17	20	19	19	17
	4 portions or more but less than 5	11	13	11	13	12	11	11	11	11	11	12
	5 portions or more	13	15	12	13	13	13	14	12	13	15	15
	Mean	2.8	2.8	2.6	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.8	2.7	2.8	2.9	2.8
	SE of the mean	0.07	0.05	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.08	0.07
	Standard deviation	2.05	1.98	1.92	1.96	1.99	2.00	2.09	1.94	2.00	2.18	2.20
	Median	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.7	2.5
Unweighted bases	Boys	764	1153	821	855	761	819	729	634	665	706	930
	Girls	752	1100	708	833	784	761	730	612	680	669	792
	All children	1516	2253	1529	1688	1545	1580	1459	1246	1345	1375	1722
Weighted bases	Boys	791	1153	792	881	800	830	742	626	689	714	902
	Girls	736	1108	759	835	759	787	720	627	674	688	848
	All children	1527	2261	1551	1716	1559	1616	1461	1253	1363	1403	1750

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Table 5.3: Child fruit and vegetable consumption, 2008 to 2018

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