Table II.
Distribution of z-scores of BMI for the cities compared to expectation assuming normality – area between adjacent centiles (%).
| Expected | Jinan | Xuzhou | Hefei | Shanghai 2000 | Shanghai 1986 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centile | (%) | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls |
| 3 | 3 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| 5 | 2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 1.7 |
| 10 | 5 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| 25 | 15 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 15.9 | 14.8 | 15.8 | 14.6 | 16.1 | 15.4 | 15.5 | 15.7 |
| 50 | 25 | 26.0 | 27.2 | 26.0 | 26.3 | 25.8 | 25.6 | 25.7 | 25.8 | 27.1 | 26.8 |
| 75 | 25 | 23.1 | 24.4 | 23.6 | 25.1 | 24.4 | 25.8 | 23.5 | 24.8 | 25.9 | 26.5 |
| 90 | 15 | 14.0 | 13.9 | 14.3 | 14.2 | 14.1 | 14.8 | 14.7 | 14.6 | 15.0 | 13.3 |
| 95 | 5 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 5.2 |
| 97 | 2 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| 100 | 3 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 |