. 2017 Feb 28;20(10):1807–1815. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017000040

Table 1.

General characteristics of Mexican children aged 1–11 years, Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 (ENSANUT-2012)

	Pre-school children (1–4 years)				School-age children (5–11 years)
Variable	Sub-category or value	n	n expanded (thousands)	% expanded	Sub-category or value	n	n expanded (thousands)	% expanded
Age (years)	1–4	1325	8744^§	100·0	5–11	1370	15 838^§	100·0
Mean	3·0				8·7
se	0·0				0·1
95 % CI	2·9, 3·1				8·5, 8·8
	1–2	656	4286	49·0	5–8	608	8746	55·0
	3–4	669	4458	51·0	9–11	762	7091	45·0
Sex
Male		620	4432	51·0		716	8060	51·0
Female		705	4311	49·0		654	7777	49·0
BMI^†	n 1241		8089		n 1300		14 952
	Normal	1123	7387	91·3	Normal	827	9648	64·5
	Overweight	118	701	8·7	Overweight	259	3069	20·5
					Obesity	214	2234	14·9
Area
Rural		525	2619	30·0		500	4658	29·4
Urban		800	6124	70·0		870	11 179	70·6
Region
North		260	1721	19·7		290	3019	19·1
Central		468	2766	31·6		478	4923	31·1
Mexico City		74	1370	15·7		112	2555	16·1
South		523	2885	33·0		490	5339	33·7
Ethnicity^‡	n 633		4252		n 966		10 844
Indigenous		42	199	4·7		63	693	6·4
Non-indigenous		591	4052	95·3		903	10 151	93·6
Socio-economic status
Low		568	3333	38·1		517	5287	33·4
Medium		420	2694	30·8		468	5185	32·7
High		337	2716	31·1		385	5365	33·9

^†

Cut-off points of BMI Z-score according to WHO.

^‡

Information on ethnicity is available for families with children >3 years old.

^§

According to Census data (2010) and population projections, the total Mexican population aged 1–4 years was 8·9 million and aged 5–11 years was 15·8 million, in 2012⁽ ²⁷ ⁾.