Usual Intake of Cheese

Table 30 includes the mean, standard error of the mean, and percentiles of the distribution of intake; Appendix Table A30 provides percentile values (rounded) and their standard errors.

Table 30. Cheese: 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	0.4 (0.03)	0.13	0.17	0.26	0.38	0.55	0.76	0.91
Children	4-8	1701	0.5 (0.04)	0.18	0.23	0.33	0.49	0.69	0.93	1.10
Males	9-13	1061	0.8 (0.05)	0.26	0.34	0.50	0.74	1.02	1.34	1.57
	14-18	1424	1.0 (0.06)	0.33	0.43	0.63	0.90	1.23	1.59	1.85
	19-30	1100	1.1 (0.05)	0.37	0.48	0.69	0.99	1.35	1.74	2.01
	31-50	1466	0.8 (0.03)	0.26	0.34	0.51	0.75	1.06	1.40	1.62
	51-70	1252	0.5 (0.03)	0.12	0.17	0.29	0.46	0.69	0.95	1.12
	71+	832	0.4 (0.03)	0.08	0.12	0.20	0.34	0.53	0.75	0.90
	19+	4650	0.8 (0.02)	0.17	0.24	0.41	0.68	1.02	1.39	1.65
Females	9-13	1112	0.6 (0.04)	0.29	0.36	0.48	0.62	0.79	0.96	1.07
	14-18	1362	0.7 (0.04)	0.29	0.36	0.49	0.66	0.84	1.02	1.14
	19-30	1325	0.7 (0.04)	0.30	0.37	0.51	0.67	0.86	1.04	1.16
	31-50	1595	0.6 (0.03)	0.23	0.30	0.42	0.57	0.74	0.91	1.02
	51-70	1284	0.4 (0.02)	0.15	0.20	0.29	0.41	0.55	0.70	0.79
	71+	860	0.3 (0.02)	0.07	0.09	0.15	0.24	0.35	0.47	0.54
	19+	5064	0.5 (0.02)	0.15	0.21	0.34	0.51	0.70	0.89	1.01
All Persons	1+	17889	0.6 (0.02)	0.17	0.23	0.37	0.57	0.83	1.14	1.38

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 A30.

4: 1 cup equivalent = the amount of cheese that contains the same amount of calcium (302 mg) as 1 cup of skim milk (generally 1.5 ounces natural cheese or 2 ounces processed cheese).

Table A30. Cheese: 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	0.1 (0.02)	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.02)	0.4 (0.02)	0.6 (0.04)	0.8 (0.07)	0.9 (0.09)
Children	4-8	0.2 (0.03)	0.2 (0.03)	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.04)	0.7 (0.06)	0.9 (0.09)	1.1 (0.12)
Males	9-13	0.3 (0.03)	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.04)	0.7 (0.05)	1.0 (0.06)	1.3 (0.07)	1.6 (0.09)
	14-18	0.3 (0.04)	0.4 (0.04)	0.6 (0.05)	0.9 (0.06)	1.2 (0.07)	1.6 (0.07)	1.9 (0.08)
	19-30	0.4 (0.03)	0.5 (0.04)	0.7 (0.04)	1.0 (0.05)	1.3 (0.07)	1.7 (0.09)	2.0 (0.11)
	31-50	0.3 (0.02)	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.03)	0.8 (0.03)	1.1 (0.04)	1.4 (0.06)	1.6 (0.07)
	51-70	0.1 (0.02)	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.02)	0.5 (0.03)	0.7 (0.04)	0.9 (0.05)	1.1 (0.06)
	71+	0.1 (0.02)	0.1 (0.02)	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.04)	0.7 (0.05)	0.9 (0.05)
	19+	0.2 (0.02)	0.2 (0.02)	0.4 (0.02)	0.7 (0.02)	1.0 (0.03)	1.4 (0.04)	1.6 (0.06)
Females	9-13	0.3 (0.04)	0.4 (0.04)	0.5 (0.04)	0.6 (0.04)	0.8 (0.05)	1.0 (0.07)	1.1 (0.09)
	14-18	0.3 (0.04)	0.4 (0.04)	0.5 (0.04)	0.7 (0.04)	0.8 (0.04)	1.0 (0.06)	1.1 (0.08)
	19-30	0.3 (0.04)	0.4 (0.04)	0.5 (0.05)	0.7 (0.04)	0.9 (0.04)	1.0 (0.05)	1.2 (0.07)
	31-50	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.03)	0.4 (0.03)	0.6 (0.03)	0.7 (0.03)	0.9 (0.04)	1.0 (0.06)
	51-70	0.2 (0.02)	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.02)	0.4 (0.02)	0.6 (0.03)	0.7 (0.03)	0.8 (0.04)
	71+	0.1 (0.01)	0.1 (0.01)	0.2 (0.01)	0.2 (0.02)	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.04)	0.5 (0.05)
	19+	0.2 (0.01)	0.2 (0.01)	0.3 (0.02)	0.5 (0.02)	0.7 (0.02)	0.9 (0.03)	1.0 (0.04)
All	1+	0.2 (0.01)	0.2 (0.01)	0.4 (0.01)	0.6 (0.02)	0.8 (0.02)	1.1 (0.03)	1.4 (0.04)

1: Standard error of the percentile.

2: 1 cup equivalent = the amount of cheese that contains the same amount of calcium (302 mg) as 1 cup of skim milk (generally 1.5 ounces natural cheese or 2 ounces processed cheese).

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