Public Concern about the Sale of High-Caffeine Drinks to Children 12 Years or Younger: An Australian Regulatory Perspective

Table 4

Factors related to how concerned the participants are about sale of high-caffeine food to children 12 years old or younger, NMSS, 2009 and 2012.

	How concerned the participants are about sales of high-caffeine; food to children (from “not very” to “very” concerned); OR [95% CI]
Survey year
2009	1.00
2012	1.38 [0.88, 2.17]
Gender
Male	1.00
Female	2.11 [1.44, 3.10]
Age (years)	1.04 [1.02, 1.05]
Living with children
No	1.00
Yes	2.16 [1.51, 3.09]
Residential area
Metro	1.00
Remote (Kimberley and Pilbara)	0.55 [0.31, 0.99]
Rural	1.21 [0.82, 1.78]

; . Results are odds ratio [95% confidence interval] from an ordinal logistic regression. The outcome variable is on a five-point Likert scale, from “not very concerned” (1) to “very concerned” (5).