Table 1.
Study characteristics by gender and generational status
| Turkish and Moroccan men N = 334 | Turkish and Moroccan women N = 339 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st generation N= 126 % (n) |
2nd generation N= 208 % (n) |
p-value men | 1st generation N= 160 % (n) |
2nd generation N= 179 % (n) |
p-value women | |
| Overweight or obese BMI (kg/m2) ≥25 |
27.8 (35) | 32.7 (68) | .210 | 45.0 (72) | 21.8 (39) | .000 |
| Socio-demographic factors | ||||||
| Age | .000 | .000 | ||||
| 15-19 | 39.7 (50) | 60.1 (125) | 21.9 (35) | 60.3 (108) | ||
| 20-24 | 22.2 (28) | 25.5 (53) | 16.9 (27) | 23.5 (42) | ||
| 25-30 | 38.1 (48) | 14.4 (30) | 61.3 (98) | 16.2 (29) | ||
| Ethnicity | .225 | .031 | ||||
| Turkish | 71.4 (90) | 66.8 (139) | 63.1 (101) | 52.5 (94) | ||
| Moroccan | 28.6 (36) | 33.2 (69) | 36.9 (59) | 47.5 (85) | ||
| Age at migration of 1st generation* | ||||||
| > 6th year | 63.9 (78) | - | 67.1 (106) | - | ||
| < 6th year | 36.1 (44) | - | 32.9 (52) | - | ||
| Years of residence- 1st generation* | ||||||
| < 12 years | 46.8 (58) | - | 42.5 (68) | - | ||
| > 12 years | 53.2 (66) | - | 57.5 (92) | - | ||
| Marital status (married or cohabiting)) | 35.7 (45) | 15.9 (33) | .000 | 60.0 (96) | 22.3 (40) | .000 |
| Having children living at home (yes) | 26.2 (3) | 12.5 (26) | .001 | 56.3 (90) | 19.6 (35) | .000 |
| Socio-economic factors* | ||||||
| Educational level | .281 | .000 | ||||
| Low | 11.7 (14) | 6.9 (14) | 28.4 (44) | 3.4 (6) | ||
| Moderate | 58.3 (70) | 64.9 (131) | 50.3 (78) | 67.6 (119) | ||
| High | 30.0 (36) | 28.2 (57) | 21.3 (33) | 29.0 (51) | ||
| Position on labour market (individual) | .002 | .000 | ||||
| Unemployed | 10.4 (12) | 6.0 (12) | 12.7 (20) | 7.3 (13) | ||
| Homemaker | - | - | 35.7 (56) | 7.9 (14) | ||
| Employed | 44.3 (51) | 28.4 (57) | 24.2 (38) | 18.6 (33) | ||
| Students | 45.2 (52) | 65.7 (132) | 27.4 (43) | 66.1 (117) | ||
| Occupational status (family) | .052 | .433 | ||||
| Unemployed | 26.2 (28) | 37.2 (64) | 28.1 (39) | 35.6 (57) | ||
| Manual occupation | 47.7 (51) | 37..8 (65) | 38.8 (54) | 37.5 (60) | ||
| Non-manual occupation | 22.4 (24) | 16.3 (28) | 29.5 (41) | 25.0 (40) | ||
| Students | 3.7 (4) | 8.7 (15) | 3.6 (5) | 1.9 (3) | ||
| Migration related factors* | ||||||
| Region of origin | .138 | .116 | ||||
| Big city | 41.3 (50) | 34.6 (71) | 35.8 (57) | 57.1 (100) | ||
| Small city/village | 58.7 (71) | 65.4 (134) | 64.2 (102) | 42.9 (75) | ||
| Reason for migration | .619 | .000 | ||||
| Came with parents | 8.1 (10) | 10.7 (22) | 11.3 (18) | 13.6 (24) | ||
| Family reunion/marriage | 13.7 (17) | 11.2 (23) | 37.5 (60) | 15.8 (28) | ||
| For economic reasons | 78.2 (97) | 78.0 (160) | 51.3 (82) | 70.6 (125) | ||
| Acculturation* | ||||||
| Cultural orientation | .042 | .016 | ||||
| 1st tertile: least oriented towards Dutch culture | 37.6 (47) | 22.7 (46) | 56.8 (88) | 14.1 (25) | ||
| 2nd tertile | 31.2 (39) | 38.4 (78) | 24.5 (38) | 38.4 (68) | ||
| 3rd tertile: most oriented towards Dutch culture | 31.2 (39) | 38.9 (79) | 18.1 (29) | 47.5 (84) | ||
| Social contacts | .014 | .000 | ||||
| 1st tertile:least contacts with ethnic Dutch | 48.0 (60) | 34.3 (70) | 49.4 (79) | 36.5 (65) | ||
| 2nd tertile | 30.4 (38) | 35.8 (73) | 31.9 (51) | 32.6 (58) | ||
| 3rd tertile: most contacts with ethnic Dutch | 21.6 (27) | 29.9 (61) | 18.8 (30) | 30.9 (55) | ||
| Religion very important* | 68.0 (83) | 56.1 (110) | .022 | 72.9 (113) | 70.5 (124) | .356 |
* Numbers do not exactly add to total number of participants due to missing cases on these variables.