TABLE 2—

Odds Ratios From Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting Overweight or Obese Status Within Pooled Sample: Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey, 1999–2003

	Model 1 (n = 1976)	Model 2 (n = 1971)	Model 3 (n = 1968)	Model 4 (n = 1968)
Race/ethnicity
Hispanica	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .
Black	0.58†	0.56†	0.58†	0.57†
White	0.59†	0.54†	0.54†	0.58***
Child’s Characteristics
Boy		0.97	0.97	0.98
Age, mo (centered at mean)		1.02	1.03	1.03
Birthweight
Normala		. . .	. . .	. . .
Low		0.63**	0.62***	0.65**
High		2.19†	2.27†	2.19†
First born		1.01	0.99	1.02
Mother’s characteristics
Education
Less than high schoola		. . .	. . .	. . .
High school		0.99	1.01	1.00
At least some college		0.99	1.00	1.03
Age, y
25–35a		. . .	. . .	. . .
< 25		0.92	0.94	1.00
> 35		1.14	1.09	1.07
Relationship status with father
Father not in homea		. . .	. . .	. . .
Married to father		0.89	0.87	0.87
Cohabiting with father		0.88	0.88	0.88
Immigrant		0.88	0.77	0.80
Breast-fed child for 6 mo or longer		0.93	0.97	1.00
High stress level		1.01	1.06	1.08
Smoked during pregnancy		0.98	0.99	1.00
Food and nutrition factors
Does not shop at grocery stores			1.47*	1.41
Takes bus or taxi or walks to food store			1.13	1.14
Food insecurity			0.88	0.86
Child takes bottle to bed			2.01†	2.10†
WIC participation at age 1 y			0.92	0.88
No. of hours of television child watches per day
0–1a			. . .	. . .
2–4			1.17	1.14
≥ 5			0.94	0.91
No. of public outings for child per week
0a			. . .	. . .
1–2			1.18	1.20
≥ 3			1.09	1.14
Child care situation
At-home care by parenta			. . .	. . .
In-home day care provider			0.93	0.91
Center-based day care provider			1.00	1.00
Weight status
Not overweighta				. . .
Overweight (85th–95th percentile)				1.21
Obese (>95th percentile)				1.76†
χ2 (df)	35.54† (2)	59.22† (17)	83.30† (28)	106.92† (30)

Note. WIC = Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Children with a body mass index at or above the 85th percentile were classified as overweight; children at or above the 95th percentile were classified as obese.

^aReference category.

* P < .10; **P < .05; ***P < .01; †P < .001.