Worldwide reasons for snacking in 2020

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Nils-Gerrit Wunsch,
Sep 26, 2023
In 2020, approximately 45 percent of survey respondents across the world stated that they always or often snack to reward themselves. Approximately 42 percent snack to relax, while 37 percent of survey respondents stated that their reason to snack is to experience 'me' time.

Worldwide reasons for snacking in 2020

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Release date

November 2020

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

October 6 to 20, 2020

Number of respondents

6,292*

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The 6,292 respondents were distributed as followed: The United States (n=506), Canada (n=503), Mexico (n=540), Brazil (n=530), France (n=519), Germany (n=520), The United Kingdom (n=500), Russia (n=504), China (n=550), India (n=555), Indonesia (n=555), and Australia (n=510).

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"Data are weighted where necessary to bring them in line with their actual proportions in the population. A global post weight was applied to ensure equal weight of each country in the global total. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated."

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