Students in grades 6 to 12 who report eating a meal from a fast-food restaurant 3 times or more in the last 7 days

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
12.7
13.9
13.1
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
11.3
12.6
10.0
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
12.4
13.9
14.5
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
11.8
12.3
13.0
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
18.3
17.9
15.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
12.0
15.1
11.7
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
16.8
18.1
15.7
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
14.2
15.9
16.4
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
16.2
18.7
14.6
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
14.4
16.1
13.2
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
14.0
17.0
9.8
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
17.9
16.0
18.5
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
9.0
12.3
13.4
Dieppe and Memramcook
10.9
10.0
7.6
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
7.7
9.2
8.9
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
18.2
19.3
16.0
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
12.0
11.7
16.2
Fredericton
11.5
12.5
11.4
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
9.2
8.9
5.9
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
21.8
18.0
17.4
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
14.2
11.3
7.9
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
8.8
12.1
8.2
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
7.1
11.0
11.2
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
14.2
16.4
16.5
Moncton
10.6
11.8
10.2
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
9.6
9.8
11.4
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
14.5
12.5
15.9
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
7.5
7.8
14.4
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
15.0
13.7
13.3
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
15.1
16.3
17.4
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
11.1
11.1
12.3
Riverview and Coverdale
9.2
13.8
10.2
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
12.5
12.4
8.4
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
13.3
16.3
16.8
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
11.6
10.6
9.8
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
13.0
17.5
9.7
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
20.3
18.5
18.4
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
12.1
13.9
10.5
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
12.8
12.8
9.7
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
12.2
14.1
17.6
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
15.1
17.8
13.5
School districts
Anglophone East School District
11.5
13.1
10.9
Anglophone North School District
15.3
19.6
17.3
Anglophone South School District
12.5
14.1
14.7
Anglophone West School District
12.3
13.0
13.6
Anglophone sector
12.5
14.2
13.8
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
15.2
15.1
13.8
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
17.8
18.1
15.3
District scolaire francophone Sud
10.4
10.1
7.8
Francophone sector
13.3
13.3
11.4
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
8.4
7.2
6.9
Grades 9 to 12
16.0
18.6
17.4
Gender
Woman/Girl
11.4
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
14.0
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
12.2
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
11.2
12.5
n/a
Male
14.2
15.4
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
11.9
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
13.1
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
12.1
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
13.0
n/a
n/a
Race
White
12.6
n/a
n/a
South Asian
8.8
n/a
n/a
Other
11.6
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
12.0
n/a
n/a
Latino
13.8
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
12.0
n/a
n/a
Black
16.5
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
18.1
17.2
16.9
Non-Indigenous
12.3
13.8
12.9
Food poverty
Food poverty
25.0
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
11.8
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
11.1
14.2
n/a
Non-immigrants
12.9
13.9
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
14.7
n/a
n/a
No special need
11.7
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 6 to 12 who report eating a meal from a fast-food restaurant 3 times or more in the last 7 days.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness Survey - Grades 6-12

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who answered "3-4 times, 5-6 times or 7+ times" by the number of respondents who answered "never, 1-2 times, 3-4 times, 5-6 times or 7+ times" to the question: In the last 7 days, how many times did you: a) Eat a meal from a fast-food restaurant?

Notes

Users are advised to exercise caution if comparing data from the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area to other New Brunswick communities. The data for the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area is based on students in grades 6 to 8, while data from the other communities are based on students in grades 6 to 12. Survey results are assigned to communities based on the location of the school. The community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area does not have any schools with grades 9 to 12.

Unit

%

NBHC code

SH_EAT13_2

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