Table 2.

Children's self-assessment of own weight status; US children (n 1224) participating in an online survey, January 2010 Question: ‘Do you think you are…?’

	Total (tweens and teens)	Tweens	Teens
Estimate of own weight status	(%)	(%)	(%)
Overweight*	27·0	21·3	31·4
Under/normal weight†	73·0	78·7	68·6

Tweens, aged 8–12 years; teens, aged 13–18 years.

*Response options were: ‘slightly overweight’, ‘very overweight’.

†Response options were: ‘very underweight’, ‘slightly underweight’, ‘about the right weight’.