Calorie labelling in the out of home sector: consultation analysis

Independent analysis of the responses to the consultation on mandatory calorie labelling in the out of home sector in Scotland.


2. About the respondents and responses

Number of responses received

The consultation received 664 responses in total. This included three duplicate responses and one blank response. After these responses were removed, the analysis was based on 660 responses.

Diffley Partnership and KSO Research exported responses from Citizen Space into Microsoft Excel and manually added non-Citizen space responses for data cleaning, review and analysis.

About the respondents

Responses were submitted by 574 individuals and 86 organisations or groups.

The types of organisation that responded were as follows:[9]

  • Out of home food provider (n=18)
  • Manufacturer (n=3)
  • Retailer (n=3)
  • Industry representative body (n=13)
  • Third sector (n=10)
  • Public sector (n=25)
  • Other (n=14).

Many of the organisations in the 'Other' category were bodies representing health professionals.

Organisation size was also collected from organisations. However, most did not provide an answer to this question

Contact

Email: DietPolicy@gov.scot

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