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Key Findings Bexley School Lunch Parent Survey. Survey Details . Survey created with input from Health and Wellness Committee, School administration & foodservice staff, OSU researchers, Bexley parents Administered online from late February through April 1
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Survey Details • Survey created with input from • Health and Wellness Committee, School administration & foodservice staff, OSU researchers, Bexley parents • Administered online from late February through April 1 • 267 completed surveys representing 472 K-12 students • About 1 in 4 Bexley households with children enrolled in K-8 • All schools represented (51/27/22% @ Cass/Maryl/Mont) • 15% respondents marked <$75,000 Income • vs. 42.5% of Bexley Households from 2009 data • 6% respondents identified as racial minority vs. 16% of students • 86% said healthiness of school lunches better than 2 years ago • 53% were aware of Ohio Senate Bill 210 • 29% where child never buys lunch; 29% buy several times a week Bexley Lunch Survey, Preliminary Results
Drivers of Lunch and Food Choice • Respondents were given several opportunities to assess the relative importance of factors driving food choice at home and for their children’s school lunches. • General, the order of importance was: • Taste/will my child eat the food • Health • Price (sensitive to income, frequency of lunch purchases) • Convenience/logistics • Situations included: • Importance of home prepared meals • Drivers of whether child currently purchases school lunch • Aspects the would make child more likely to buy school lunch • Response to hypothetical lunch menu purchase decisions
Current Lunch Purchase Factors (Q2) *Numbers that share the same letter are not statistically distinct Bexley Lunch Survey, Preliminary Results
* Mean rating on 5-point scale where 1=much less willing and 5=much more willing **Numbers that share the same letter are not statistically distinct
Hypothetical Lunch Purchases † Holds constant the respondent’s rating of healthiness of meal, perceived palatability of meal and current school lunch purchasing frequency **, denotes that this number is statistically distinct from the base category Bexley Lunch Survey, Preliminary Results
Hypothetical Lunch Purchases † Holds constant the respondent’s rating of healthiness of meal, perceived palatability of meal and current school lunch purchasing frequency **, denotes that this number is statistically distinct from the base category Bexley Lunch Survey, Preliminary Results
Hypothetical Lunch Purchases † Holds constant the respondent’s rating of healthiness of meal, perceived palatability of meal and current school lunch purchasing frequency **, denotes that this number is statistically distinct from the base category Bexley Lunch Survey, Preliminary Results