Weekly discretionary drink consumption, ACT Year 7 students
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Commentary
Respondents to the Year 7 Health Survey were asked to report how many times in the last seven days they had fruit juice and fruit drinks, flavoured milk, iced tea, soft drinks or cordial, diet or artificially sweetened soft drinks or cordials, energy drinks and sports drinks and vitamin waters.
The proportion of respondents who reported consuming discretionary drinks one or more times in the last week significantly decreased between 2019 (91.7%) and 2020 (86.8%), but remained stable between 2020 and 2021 (87.7%). There was no significant difference by sex of those who consumed discretionary drinks one or more times in the last week in 2021.
For the purpose of reporting the Year 7 Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.
Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
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Weekly discretionary drink consumption, ACT Year 7 students, Year 7 Health Survey, 2019-2021
Data
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