Table 2.

Distribution of sociodemographic, anthropometric, and dietary habits of study participants by sex

	Overall (N 2428) n, %	Boys (n 1210)	Girls (n 1218)
Age (mean ± sd) in years	11⋅8 ± 2⋅4	11⋅8 ± 2⋅4	11⋅7 ± 2⋅4
School type (row %)
Government	1524, 62⋅8	760, 49⋅9	764, 50⋅1
Private	904, 37⋅3	450, 49⋅8	454, 50⋅2
Type of family (row %)
Joint	743/2425, 30⋅6	358/743, 48⋅2	385/743, 51⋅8
Nuclear	1682/2425, 69⋅4	849/1682, 50⋅5	833/1682, 49⋅5
Primary caregiver (row %)
Mother	2056, 84⋅7	1020, 49⋅6	1036, 50⋅4
Father	151, 6⋅2	80, 53⋅0	71, 47⋅0
Others	221, 9⋅1	110, 49⋅8	111, 50⋅2
Socioeconomic class (Revised Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic scale) (row %)
Upper or upper middle or lower middle	1403/2425, 57⋅9	717/1403, 51⋅1	686/1403, 48⋅9
Upper lower or lower	1022/2425, 42⋅1	490/1022, 48⋅0	532/1022, 52⋅0
Anthropometric Indicators (column %)
Height for age
Stunted (HAZ < –2 sd)	362, 14⋅9	169, 14⋅0	193, 15⋅8
Anthropometric indicator (column %)
Severe thinness or thinness	359, 14⋅8	196, 16⋅2	163, 13⋅4
Normal	1682, 69⋅3	829, 68⋅5	853, 70⋅0
Overweight	263, 10⋅8	124, 10⋅2	139, 11⋅4
Obese or severe obese	124, 5⋅1	61, 5⋅0	63, 5⋅2
Dietary habit (column %)
Vegetarian	376, 15⋅5	195, 16⋅1	181, 14⋅9
Non-vegetarian	1922, 79⋅2	952, 78⋅7	970, 79⋅6
Eggetarian	130, 5⋅3	63, 5⋅2	67, 5⋅5