. 2023 Apr 20;23:721. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15592-0

Table 1.

Distribution of excess weight and socio-demographic characteristics of the English adult population and regions—proportions (%) and standard deviations (in parenthesis) unless otherwise stated

	England	North-East	North-West	Yorkshire and Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands	East of England	London	South East	South West
BMI score
Mean	28.03	28.62	28.36	28.18	28.27	28.61	27.90	27.16	27.41	28.40
Mean	(5.7)	(6.0)	(6.0)	(5.9)	(5.7)	(5.8)	(5.4)	(5.3)	(5.6)	(5.6)
BMI category
Underweight	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
Underweight	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)
Healthy weight	0.31	0.28	0.29	0.34	0.30	0.26	0.31	0.35	0.35	0.28
Healthy weight	(0.5)	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.4)
Overweight	0.38	0.34	0.39	0.36	0.36	0.39	0.39	0.37	0.38	0.39
Overweight	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)
Obesity	0.30	0.37	0.31	0.30	0.33	0.34	0.29	0.26	0.26	0.32
Obesity	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.5)
Sex
Males	0.45	0.45	0.45	0.45	0.46	0.45	0.47	0.43	0.45	0.45
Males	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)
Females	0.55	0.55	0.55	0.55	0.54	0.55	0.53	0.57	0.55	0.55
Females	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)
Age group
20–29 years	0.11	0.09	0.12	0.13	0.11	0.06	0.08	0.15	0.11	0.10
20–29 years	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.3)
30–39 years	0.17	0.14	0.18	0.21	0.17	0.16	0.20	0.21	0.14	0.14
30–39 years	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)
40–49 years	0.18	0.16	0.18	0.18	0.15	0.19	0.17	0.20	0.18	0.14
40–49 years	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)
50–59 years	0.18	0.21	0.19	0.15	0.18	0.19	0.17	0.19	0.17	0.20
50–59 years	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)
60–69 years	0.17	0.16	0.17	0.14	0.19	0.17	0.17	0.14	0.18	0.19
60–69 years	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)
70–79 years	0.14	0.16	0.11	0.13	0.15	0.15	0.16	0.10	0.15	0.16
70–79 years	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)
80 + years	0.06	0.08	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.07	0.06	0.03	0.06	0.07
80 + years	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.3)
Ethnicity
White	0.87	0.95	0.88	0.88	0.92	0.83	0.89	0.62	0.92	0.93
White	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.5)	(0.3)	(0.3)
Mixed	0.02	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.01	0.02
Mixed	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.1)
Asian	0.08	0.04	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.13	0.06	0.21	0.06	0.03
Asian	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.4)	(0.2)	(0.2)
Black	0.03	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.10	0.01	0.01
Black	(0.2)	(0.0)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.1)	(0.1)
Other	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00
Other	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.0)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.1)
Education
NVQ4/NVQ5/Degree or equiv	0.31	0.25	0.27	0.26	0.25	0.23	0.32	0.49	0.34	0.29
NVQ4/NVQ5/Degree or equiv	(0.5)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)
Higher Ed. below degree	0.11	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.14	0.11	0.08	0.11	0.13
Higher Ed. below degree	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)
NVQ3/GCE A Level or equiv	0.14	0.15	0.16	0.12	0.15	0.14	0.15	0.11	0.15	0.12
NVQ3/GCE A Level or equiv	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)
NVQ2/GCE 0 Level or equiv	0.18	0.23	0.18	0.18	0.19	0.20	0.16	0.12	0.18	0.21
NVQ2/GCE 0 Level or equiv	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)
NVQ1/CSE or equiv	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.04
NVQ1/CSE or equiv	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.2)
Foreign/Other	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01
Foreign/Other	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)
No qualification	0.19	0.18	0.21	0.23	0.22	0.20	0.18	0.15	0.14	0.18
No qualification	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)
Full-time student	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03
Full-time student	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)
Occupation
Managerial/professional	0.39	0.33	0.35	0.33	0.34	0.33	0.43	0.48	0.44	0.38
Managerial/professional	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)
Intermediate occupations	0.14	0.16	0.12	0.14	0.15	0.14	0.15	0.14	0.15	0.14
Intermediate occupations	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)
Small employers/own account workers	0.11	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.12	0.10	0.11	0.16
Small employers/own account workers	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.4)
Lower supervisory/technical	0.07	0.07	0.05	0.09	0.08	0.09	0.07	0.04	0.06	0.06
Lower supervisory/technical	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.2)
Semi-routine	0.28	0.34	0.35	0.32	0.31	0.34	0.23	0.21	0.21	0.26
Semi-routine	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)
Other	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.01
Other	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.1)	(0.2)	(0.1)	(0.1)
Index of Multiple Deprivation
Most deprived: 34.42—85.46	0.20	0.27	0.35	0.33	0.21	0.28	0.10	0.17	0.07	0.06
Most deprived: 34.42—85.46	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.5)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.2)
21.22—34.42	0.19	0.26	0.20	0.14	0.15	0.20	0.15	0.32	0.13	0.22
21.22—34.42	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.3)	(0.4)
13.74—21.22	0.20	0.14	0.15	0.20	0.21	0.23	0.24	0.21	0.19	0.21
13.74—21.22	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)
8.32—13.74	0.20	0.15	0.16	0.19	0.23	0.14	0.23	0.16	0.23	0.31
8.32—13.74	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.5)
Least deprived: 0.37—8.32	0.21	0.19	0.14	0.13	0.19	0.15	0.28	0.14	0.38	0.20
Least deprived: 0.37—8.32	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.3)	(0.3)	(0.4)	(0.4)	(0.5)	(0.3)	(0.5)	(0.4)
Observations	6387	548	833	664	573	606	771	776	1020	596

BMI body mass index, NVQ National Vocational Qualification, GCE General Certificate of Education