Usual Intake of Milk

Table 29 includes the mean, standard error of the mean, and percentiles of the distribution of intake; Appendix Table A29 provides percentile values (rounded) and their standard errors.

Table 29. Milk: Mean (standard error) and percentiles³ of usual intake, 2001-2004
	Age (years)	N¹	Mean (SE)²	5%	10%	25%	50%	75%	90%	95%
	Age (years)	N¹	Cup Equivalents⁴
Children	1-3	1515	2.0 (0.07)	0.48	0.70	1.16	1.80	2.58	3.39	3.94
Children	4-8	1701	1.7 (0.05)	0.37	0.55	0.95	1.54	2.25	3.01	3.53
Males	9-13	1061	1.8 (0.08)	0.24	0.39	0.77	1.45	2.45	3.73	4.68
	14-18	1424	1.5 (0.07)	0.16	0.27	0.58	1.17	2.07	3.21	4.07
	19-30	1100	1.0 (0.08)	0.07	0.13	0.33	0.74	1.41	2.31	3.01
	31-50	1466	0.9 (0.04)	0.06	0.12	0.29	0.66	1.28	2.09	2.75
	51-70	1252	1.0 (0.05)	0.08	0.14	0.33	0.70	1.32	2.14	2.78
	71+	832	1.2 (0.07)	0.13	0.22	0.46	0.92	1.63	2.57	3.28
	19+	4650	1.0 (0.03)	0.07	0.14	0.32	0.71	1.35	2.20	2.86
Females	9-13	1112	1.4 (0.07)	0.24	0.37	0.68	1.20	1.92	2.79	3.43
	14-18	1362	0.9 (0.06)	0.08	0.15	0.34	0.72	1.28	1.99	2.52
	19-30	1325	0.8 (0.05)	0.06	0.11	0.28	0.59	1.08	1.72	2.20
	31-50	1595	0.8 (0.04)	0.06	0.11	0.27	0.59	1.07	1.68	2.13
	51-70	1284	0.8 (0.03)	0.07	0.12	0.28	0.59	1.06	1.66	2.11
	71+	860	0.9 (0.04)	0.11	0.19	0.39	0.74	1.27	1.92	2.40
	19+	5064	0.8 (0.02)	0.06	0.12	0.29	0.60	1.09	1.71	2.17
All Persons	1+	17889	1.1 (0.02)	0.08	0.15	0.37	0.79	1.47	2.35	2.99

1: Number of persons in sample.

2: Standard error of the mean (df=30).

3: Standard errors of the percentiles are presented in Appendix Table A29.

4: 1 cup equivalent = 1 cup of milk.

Table A29. Milk: Percentiles (and standard errors) of usual intake, 2001-2004
	Age (years)	5% (SE)¹	10% (SE)	25% (SE)	50% (SE)	75% (SE)	90% (SE)	95% (SE)
	Age (years)	Cup Equivalents²
Children	1-3	0.5 (0.06)	0.7 (0.06)	1.2 (0.06)	1.8 (0.07)	2.6 (0.11)	3.4 (0.15)	3.9 (0.19)
Children	4-8	0.4 (0.04)	0.6 (0.04)	1.0 (0.04)	1.5 (0.04)	2.3 (0.08)	3.0 (0.13)	3.5 (0.17)
Males	9-13	0.2 (0.03)	0.4 (0.03)	0.8 (0.05)	1.4 (0.07)	2.4 (0.11)	3.7 (0.18)	4.7 (0.24)
	14-18	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.03)	0.6 (0.04)	1.2 (0.06)	2.1 (0.10)	3.2 (0.15)	4.1 (0.20)
	19-30	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.04)	0.7 (0.06)	1.4 (0.11)	2.3 (0.17)	3.0 (0.22)
	31-50	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.01)	0.3 (0.02)	0.7 (0.04)	1.3 (0.06)	2.1 (0.09)	2.7 (0.12)
	51-70	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.01)	0.3 (0.02)	0.7 (0.04)	1.3 (0.06)	2.1 (0.11)	2.8 (0.15)
	71+	0.1 (0.02)	0.2 (0.02)	0.5 (0.04)	0.9 (0.06)	1.6 (0.09)	2.6 (0.15)	3.3 (0.19)
	19+	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.01)	0.3 (0.02)	0.7 (0.02)	1.3 (0.04)	2.2 (0.08)	2.9 (0.12)
Females	9-13	0.2 (0.03)	0.4 (0.04)	0.7 (0.05)	1.2 (0.06)	1.9 (0.09)	2.8 (0.14)	3.4 (0.18)
	14-18	0.1 (0.02)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.04)	0.7 (0.06)	1.3 (0.09)	2.0 (0.12)	2.5 (0.16)
	19-30	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.03)	0.6 (0.04)	1.1 (0.07)	1.7 (0.10)	2.2 (0.13)
	31-50	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.02)	0.6 (0.03)	1.1 (0.05)	1.7 (0.08)	2.1 (0.11)
	51-70	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.02)	0.6 (0.02)	1.1 (0.04)	1.7 (0.07)	2.1 (0.10)
	71+	0.1 (0.02)	0.2 (0.03)	0.4 (0.03)	0.7 (0.04)	1.3 (0.05)	1.9 (0.07)	2.4 (0.09)
	19+	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.02)	0.6 (0.02)	1.1 (0.03)	1.7 (0.06)	2.2 (0.09)
All	1+	0.1 (0.01)	0.2 (0.01)	0.4 (0.01)	0.8 (0.02)	1.5 (0.03)	2.3 (0.06)	3.0 (0.08)

1: Standard error of the percentile.

2: 1 cup equivalent = 1 cup of milk.

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