ACTGHS doesn't eat fast food, adult age groups

Commentary

14.0% of respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey aged 25 to 44 years, 31.7% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 58.8% of respondents aged 65 years and over reported that they rarely or never eat fast food meals or snacks including burgers, pizza, chicken or chips from places like McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, Pizza Hut, KFC, Red Rooster, or local take-away places. In 2022, respondents aged 25 to 44 years were significantly less likely to report that they rarely or never eat fast food than respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 65 years and over and respondents aged 45 to 64 years were significantly less likely to rarely or never eat fast food than respondents aged 65 years and over.

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Respondents to the 2022 survey were aged 18 years and over. Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

The 2019 estimate for respondents aged 18 to 24 years has a relative standard error between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution.

The 2015/16, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 estimates for respondents aged 18 to 24 years have not been published due to small numbers or a relative standard error greater than 50%.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

Chart

Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who never/rarely eat fast food, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2014-2022

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. How often do you have meals or snacks such as burgers, pizza, chicken or chips from places like McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, Pizza Hut, KFC, Red Rooster, or local take-away places?

Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.