Table 2.

Prevalence of double burden of malnutrition in 6–59-month-old children living with their 20–49-year-old mothers (437 child–mother pairs), Greater Tunis area, Tunisia, 2009/2010

	All (n 437)		Girls (n 215)	Boys (n 222)	Girls v. boys
	%*	95 % CI†	%*	%*	P value‡
Anaemic§ child and overweight║ mother	24·4	20·1, 29·3	24·9	24·0	0·80
Anaemic child and obese¶ mother	14·4	11·0, 18·5	14·5	14·2	0·95
Overweight child and anaemic mother	3·7	2·2, 6·3	4·1	3·4	0·72
Obese child and anaemic mother	1·2	0·5, 2·9	2·0	0·4	0·15
Stunted** child and overweight mother	3·7	2·1, 6·4	3·2	4·2	0·60
Stunted child and obese mother	1·2	0·5, 3·3	0·7	1·8	0·40
Wasted†† child and overweight mother	1·1	0·4, 2·7	0·6	1·6	0·33
Wasted child and obese mother	0·9	0·3, 2·5	0·6	1·3	0·47

^*Weighted proportions.

^†95 % CI taking the sampling design into account.

^‡ P value for girls v. boys contrast.

^§Anaemia: for children, Hb<110 g/l; for mothers, Hb<120 g/l.

^║Overweight: for children, BMI-for-age Z-score>2; for mothers, BMI≥25·0·kg/m².

^¶Obesity: for children, BMI-for-age Z-score>3; for mothers, BMI≥30·0·kg/m².

^**Stunting: height-for-age Z-score<−2.

^††Wasting: weight-for-height Z-score<−2.