Factors | Males | Females | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | Overweight | Obesity | n | Overweight | Obesity | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
*All survey percentages are calculated using sample weights. | ||||||||||
p values refer to χ2 significance tests for a difference across groups. | ||||||||||
Age (y) | ||||||||||
2–4 | 489 | 91 | 19.2 | 30 | 6.9 | 476 | 117 | 22.4 | 25 | 4.7 |
5–9 | 849 | 177 | 21.0 | 48 | 5.5 | 811 | 218 | 27.0 | 69 | 8.4 |
10–15 | 954 | 218 | 23.0 | 46 | 4.7 | 887 | 203 | 22.9 | 49 | 6.5 |
16–20 | 561 | 126 | 21.5 | 40 | 6.7 | 662 | 161 | 23.7 | 51 | 6.8 |
p = 0.46 | p = 0.31 | p = 0.21 | p = 0.12 | |||||||
Social class | ||||||||||
I & II | 794 | 172 | 21.6 | 41 | 5.1 | 769 | 171 | 23.8 | 53 | 8.6 |
IIIn | 309 | 67 | 22.7 | 12 | 4.1 | 355 | 92 | 23.5 | 33 | 8.2 |
IIIm | 871 | 192 | 22.1 | 55 | 6.3 | 842 | 218 | 24.3 | 58 | 6.0 |
IV&V | 683 | 141 | 20.5 | 44 | 6.3 | 659 | 175 | 26.1 | 44 | 6.2 |
p = 0.88 | p = 0.48 | p = 0.79 | p = 0.19 | |||||||
Ethnic group | ||||||||||
General population | 950 | 206 | 21.7 | 54 | 5.8 | 916 | 204 | 22.3 | 54 | 5.8 |
Afro-Caribbean | 322 | 68 | 22.6 | 16 | 5.1 | 373 | 119 | 33.3 | 47 | 13.0 |
Indian | 304 | 84 | 29.6 | 23 | 7.9 | 267 | 64 | 24.0 | 8 | 2.1 |
Pakistani | 436 | 110 | 26.2 | 36 | 9.0 | 458 | 119 | 25.7 | 38 | 8.0 |
Bangladeshi | 377 | 66 | 14.2 | 15 | 2.8 | 335 | 77 | 20.7 | 23 | 5.8 |
Chinese | 160 | 23 | 14.4 | 8 | 4.7 | 150 | 18 | 13.0 | 2 | 1.2 |
Irish | 304 | 55 | 17.3 | 12 | 3.3 | 337 | 98 | 25.6 | 22 | 8.3 |
p<0.0001 | p<0.0001 | p<0.0001 | p<0.0001 | |||||||
Total | 2853 | 612 | 21.5 | 164 | 5.7 | 2836 | 699 | 24.2 | 194 | 6.8 |