Table 2.

Prevalence of Maltreatment and Obesity by Level of Household and Child Characteristics

	Characteristic,		Neglect, % Ever	Corporal Punishment, % Highest Quintile	Psychological Aggression, % Highest Quintile	Child Obese, %b
	Na	%
Income-to-poverty ratio
<0.50	657	27.2	14.6	16.9	19.6	16.6
0.50 – 0.99	475	19.7	11.2	21.5	21.7	21.9
1.00 – 1.85	549	22.8	11.1	21.2	22.6	19.1
1.86 – 2.99	359	14.9	7.3	22.3	20.6	16.4
≥3.00	372	15.4	8.4	15.0	17.5	16.4
P valueb			0.002	0.02	0.37	0.12
Number of children
1	705	29.3	9.6	22.0	21.4	16.7
2-3	1270	52.7	11.0	19.7	20.3	19.3
≥4	433	18.0	13.6	13.7	19.6	17.3
P value			0.12	0.002	0.74	0.32
Child sex
Male	1249	51.8	11.6	22.5	23.6	18.6
Female	1163	48.2	10.5	15.8	17.3	17.7
P value			0.39	<0.001	<0.001	0.58
Birth weight (grams)
<2500	231	9.6	14.3	17.8	19.5	13.4
25000-3999	1995	83.2	11.1	19.3	20.6	17.9
≥4000	171	7.1	6.4	20.5	21.0	28.1
P value			0.04	0.78	0.91	<0.001

^aIf N <2412, the subject was missing data for that item.

^bBody mass index ≥95^th percentile.