Abstract
Skipping breakfast has become extremely common in recent times because of unhealthy eating habits. This paper aims to track the changing rates of skipping breakfast based on different birth cohorts, and to examine age, period and cohort effects depending on gender from 1975 to 2005. The following were the main results of this study: The rate of people skipping breakfast in all age groups increased during this period. This was particularly true of those in the 20-29 years old age group. The younger the cohort, the higher the rate of those who skipped breakfast. Those born between 1966 and 1975 exhibited different behavior patterns from those in older age groups. The rate of females who skipped breakfast was relatively low compared with the rate of males who did so. Even though the peak rate of both males and females was in the 20-29 age group, the rate in the 30-39 group was also relatively high. As the result of separately assessing age, period and cohort, it was discovered that the age effect in males was more pronounced than that in females. There was a remarkable increase in the period effect from 1995 to 2005. The younger birth cohorts showed the stronger cohort effects, particularly in the case of the 1966-1975 birth cohort.
