Table 2.

Prevalence of obesity by gender, residency, age group, religion, ethnicity, occupation, level of education, marital status, physical activity, socio-economic status, and number of children.

	Total	Normal		Overweight		Obesity
	n	n	%	n	%	n	%
Gender (p<0.001)
Male	919	318	34.4	340	36.9	261	28.8
Female	1117	291	25.9	309	27.7	517	46.4
Residency (p<0.08)
Formal	1017	281	27.6	335	32.9	401	39.9
Non-formal	1019	328	32.2	314	30.8	377	37.0
Age group (p<0.001)
18–29	735	386	52.9	230	31.3	119	15.8
30–45	873	168	19.1	313	36.1	392	44.7
46–65	428	55	12.5	106	24.4	267	63.2
Religion (p<0.5)
Muslim	1936	582	29.9	611	31.4	743	38.7
Non-muslim	95	25	26.4	37	39.1	33	34.6
Ethnicity (p<0.002)
Arab	1623	471	29.0	501	30.8	651	40.2
Other	409	137	32.9	147	36.1	125	31.0
Occupation (p<0.001)
Student	119	74	62.8	32	27.0	13	10.2
Employed	937	318	33.3	342	36.5	277	30.2
Unemployed	980	217	21.7	275	27.9	488	50.3
Level of education (p<0.001)
Illiterate	423	81	18.4	129	30.9	213	50.8
0–12 years	1341	435	31.9	417	30.7	498	37.4
> 12 years	272	93	34.2	103	37.8	76	28.0
Marital status (p<0.001)
Not married	494	277	55.3	118	24.1	99	20.5
Married	1542	332	21.0	531	34.4	679	44.5
SES score (p<0.001)
SES (0–3)	789	188	23.3	243	30.5	358	46.3
SES (4–5)	710	236	33.3	234	32.9	240	33.8
SES (6–12)	537	185	33.5	172	32.2	180	34.3
Number of children (female only) (p<0.001)
0	54	12	22.2	17	31.5	25	46.3
1	76	25	32.9	29	38.2	22	28.9
2	132	50	37.9	38	28.8	44	33.3
3	128	17	13.3	41	32.0	70	54.7
4	113	19	16.8	41	36.3	53	46.9
5	126	15	11.9	40	31.7	71	56.3
6–7	147	6	4.1	33	22.4	108	73.5
8	115	5	4.3	24	20.9	86	74.8
Never married	226	142	62.8	46	20.3	38	16.8

p< 0.05 according to Chi² analysis