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Table 3 Key features of previous studies of fast-food outlets in the UK

From: Capturing the fast-food landscape in England using large-scale network analysis

Ref.

Area

Data

Analysis

[37]

Norfolk county

The location of food-related outlets was extracted from the Yellow Pages directory issued in six years (1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2008). Locations were overlaid onto the 2001 electoral ward boundaries for Norfolk (n = 205)

Repeated measures analysis of variance (RMANOVA)/multiple logistic regression model

[38]

England and Scotland

The location of McDonald’s restaurants (n = 942) were obtained from the Yellow Pages directory and overlaid on 38,987 small areas: 6505 ‘Data zones’ in Scotland and 32,482 Super Output Areas in England

One-way analysis of variance

[30]

Avon county

The location of outlets was extracted from the Ordnance Survey Points of Interest in Avon county

Geographically weighted regression

[35]

Berkshire county

The location of outlets was obtained from six local councils, with analyses at the LSOA level

Cross-classified multi-level model with Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

[36]

North East of England

The location of food-related outlets was extracted from the Yellow Pages directory, with analyses at the LSOA level

Correlation analysis, logistic multinomial regression, ANOVA