Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents and adults aged 15–65 years in the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS), September 2014–July 2015*
| ELANS | Argentina | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Costa Rica | Ecuador | Peru | Venezuela | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Sample size | 9218 | 100·0 | 1266 | 100·0 | 2000 | 100·0 | 879 | 100·0 | 1230 | 100·0 | 798 | 100·0 | 800 | 100·0 | 1113 | 100·0 | 1132 | 100·0 |
| Gender | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men | 4409 | 47·8 | 573 | 45·3 | 942 | 47·1 | 425 | 48·4 | 603 | 49·0 | 394 | 49·4 | 397 | 49·6 | 523 | 47·0 | 552 | 48·8 |
| Women | 4809 | 52·2 | 693 | 54·7 | 1058 | 52·9 | 454 | 51·6 | 627 | 51·0 | 404 | 50·6 | 403 | 50·4 | 590 | 53·0 | 580 | 51·2 |
| Age (years) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 15–19 years | 1223 | 13·3 | 152 | 12·1 | 235 | 11·8 | 118 | 13·4 | 148 | 12·0 | 121 | 15·2 | 128 | 16·0 | 165 | 14·8 | 156 | 13·8 |
| 20–34 years | 3479 | 37·7 | 446 | 35·2 | 745 | 37·2 | 307 | 34·9 | 445 | 36·2 | 301 | 37·7 | 316 | 39·5 | 460 | 41·3 | 459 | 40·5 |
| 35–49 years | 2627 | 28·5 | 379 | 29·9 | 608 | 30·4 | 252 | 28·7 | 335 | 27·2 | 224 | 28·1 | 222 | 27·8 | 294 | 26·4 | 313 | 27·7 |
| 50–65 years | 1889 | 20·5 | 289 | 22·8 | 412 | 20·6 | 202 | 23·0 | 302 | 24·6 | 152 | 19·0 | 134 | 16·8 | 194 | 17·4 | 204 | 18·0 |
| Socio-economic level | ||||||||||||||||||
| High | 880 | 9·6 | 65 | 5·1 | 169 | 8·4 | 80 | 9·1 | 67 | 5·4 | 108 | 13·5 | 104 | 13·0 | 225 | 20·2 | 62 | 5·5 |
| Medium | 3542 | 38·4 | 585 | 46·2 | 915 | 45·8 | 388 | 44·1 | 384 | 31·2 | 428 | 53·6 | 297 | 37·1 | 355 | 31·9 | 190 | 16·8 |
| Low | 4796 | 52·0 | 616 | 48·7 | 916 | 45·8 | 411 | 46·8 | 779 | 63·3 | 262 | 32·8 | 339 | 49·9 | 533 | 47·9 | 880 | 77·7 |
| BMI | ||||||||||||||||||
| Underweight | 306 | 3·3 | 37 | 2·9 | 87 | 4·3 | 5 | 0·6 | 59 | 4·8 | 27 | 3·4 | 28 | 3·5 | 24 | 2·2 | 39 | 3·5 |
| Normal | 3420 | 37·1 | 493 | 38·9 | 749 | 37·5 | 271 | 30·8 | 548 | 44·5 | 267 | 33·4 | 288 | 36·0 | 414 | 37·5 | 390 | 34·5 |
| Overweight | 3167 | 34·4 | 399 | 31·5 | 664 | 33·2 | 332 | 37·8 | 419 | 34·1 | 260 | 32·6 | 287 | 35·9 | 422 | 38·3 | 384 | 33·9 |
| Obesity | 2315 | 25·2 | 337 | 26·6 | 500 | 25·0 | 271 | 30·8 | 204 | 16·6 | 244 | 30·6 | 197 | 24·6 | 243 | 22·0 | 319 | 28·1 |
*
Including the whole sample of the ELANS (plausible and non-plausible cases).