Table 2 Prevalence of obesity for the women in 1995 and 2007, by demographic, socio-economic and behavioural factors
From: Socioeconomic inequality and obesity prevalence trends in luxembourg, 1995–2007
1995 | 2007 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Average BMI (SD) | Overweight | Obese | N | Average BMI (SD) | Overweight | Obese | ||
Total | 5117 | 25.1 (4.4) | 37.3 | 14.3 | 7768 | 25.5 (4.6) | 36.4 | 17.8 | |
Women | |||||||||
All | 2649 | 24.4 (4.6) | 28.9 | 13.6 | 3947 | 25.1 (5.0) | 29.3 | 17.7 | |
Age groups | 16-24 | 180 | 23.0 (4.2) | 15.7 | 9.8 | 469 | 22.0 (3.4) | 15.4 | 4.8 |
25-34 | 582 | 23.1 (4.6) | 19.7 | 10.1 | 678 | 23.7 (3.8) | 22.8 | 11.2 | |
35-44 | 527 | 23.9 (5.0) | 23.7 | 12.7 | 859 | 24.9 (5.2) | 23.4 | 16.1 | |
45-54 | 404 | 25.0 (4.2) | 32.8 | 14.7 | 717 | 25.8 (5.2) | 29.9 | 21.9 | |
55-64 | 362 | 26.0 (4.0) | 40.9 | 19.7 | 471 | 26.3 (4.6) | 38.1 | 21.7 | |
65+ | 592 | 25.1 (4.8) | 36.6 | 14.6 | 754 | 27.2 (5.8) | 44.4 | 27.0 | |
Nationality | Luxembourgers | 1912 | 24.4 (4.7) | 29.6 | 13.9 | 2462 | 25.2 (5.7) | 30.2 | 18.5 |
Portuguese | 223 | 24.7 (4.1) | 29.9 | 13.3 | 462 | 25.9 (4.1) | 27.3 | 23.5 | |
French | 101 | 23.2 (3.7) | 31.5 | 5.6 | 191 | 22.8 (2.7) | 20.1 | 6.4 | |
German | 51 | 24.3 (5.1) | 30.3 | 15.2 | 105 | 25.0 (4.5) | 21.5 | 18.7 | |
Others | 359 | 24.3 (4.6) | 23.8 | 14.2 | 726 | 24.8 (4.4) | 31.0 | 14.1 | |
Marital status | Single | 565 | 23.2 (4.8) | 18.7 | 11.5 | 948 | 23.1 (4.4) | 19.8 | 9.5 |
Married | 1457 | 24.5 (4.4) | 31.5 | 12.7 | 2271 | 25.5 (4.8) | 30.9 | 19.0 | |
Divorced/separated | 171 | 24.2 (4.8) | 28.0 | 12.1 | 325 | 25.7 (5.1) | 27.5 | 22.3 | |
Widowed | 454 | 25.6 (4.8) | 33.8 | 19.7 | 403 | 27.1 (5.7) | 43.8 | 26.1 | |
Educational level | Primary | 1491 | 25.3 (4.6) | 33.5 | 18.6 | 1235 | 26.8 (5.4) | 36.6 | 25.2 |
Secondary | 866 | 23.5 (4.4) | 23.9 | 8.6 | 1901 | 24.8 (5.0) | 27.2 | 16.9 | |
Tertiary | 284 | 22.2 (4.2) | 20.0 | 2.8 | 788 | 23.4 (3.6) | 23.5 | 7.7 | |
Profession | Managers and Intellectual professions | 175 | 22.7 (4.6) | 26.4 | 3.3 | 382 | 24.2 (4.1) | 30.0 | 10.8 |
Intermediate Professions | 207 | 22.7 (5.0) | 18.5 | 6.8 | 462 | 23.6 (4.7) | 18.2 | 11.4 | |
Employed | 268 | 23.0 (4.4) | 14.0 | 9.6 | 500 | 23.9 (4.3) | 26.9 | 10.2 | |
Agricultural workers/Craftsmen/Workers/No profession | 1997 | 24.9 (4.5) | 32.2 | 15.8 | 2603 | 25.8 (5.2) | 31.6 | 21.3 | |
Place of residence | Centre- North | 295 | 24.1 (5.2) | 27.3 | 13.0 | 461 | 25.0 (5.4) | 28.5 | 14.7 |
Centre- South | 1277 | 24.4 (4.4) | 30.1 | 13.3 | 1933 | 25.3 (4.9) | 29.1 | 19.0 | |
East | 285 | 24.9 (5.1) | 25.4 | 19.5 | 402 | 25.4 (4.7) | 29.5 | 20.2 | |
North | 73 | 24.2 (3.8) | 30.3 | 10.8 | 225 | 25.1 (5.1) | 33.4 | 15.9 | |
West | 198 | 24.7 (4.9) | 28.7 | 15.7 | 249 | 25.4 (5.4) | 24.3 | 22.3 | |
Luxembourg-city | 518 | 24.1 (4.6) | 28.6 | 11.1 | 677 | 24.5 (4.7) | 30.5 | 13.5 | |
Physical activity | Yes | 782 | 23.2 (4.2) | 21.0 | 9.5 | 1973 | 24.0 (4.5) | 25.1 | 11.6 |
No | 1847 | 24.9 (4.7) | 32.0 | 15.3 | 1974 | 26.2 (5.1) | 33.5 | 23.8 | |
Diet | Balanced | 2264 | 24.3 (4.4) | 29.3 | 12.4 | 3479 | 25.1 (4.9) | 29.6 | 17.3 |
Unbalanced | 300 | 25.0 (5.6) | 28.6 | 19.8 | 403 | 25.6 (5.5) | 26.9 | 21.7 | |
No know | 80 | 25.4 (6.1) | 18.9 | 26.7 | 57 | 25.3 (4.5) | 26.3 | 19.3 | |