Abstract
Our main objectives were to identify the background factors determining adult breakfast skipping and to examine whether there were gender differences in these factors by analyzing a dataset obtained from the Cabinet Office's 'Survey of the Current Status and Perceptions of Dietary Education, 2010'. Our results, estimated by application of the ordered logit model, clearly suggested that factors such as age, marital status, lifestyle habits, and food consumption habits in childhood were associated with frequency of breakfast skipping in both male and female adults. In addition, perceptions of health/living standards and food perceptions in the workplace affected the frequency of breakfast skipping only in male adults. Perceptions of eating atmosphere and of food in residential areas affected the frequency only in female adults.
