Table 3. Global (country and neighborhood level) and within-country (neighborhood) age-adjusted correlation of underweight and overweight among men aged 15–54 from DHS surveys in seven low- to middle-income countries.
Country | r | P-value |
Global * | ||
Country-level | −0.72 | 0.28 |
Neighborhood-level | −0.39 | <0.0001 |
Country (n) | ||
Azerbaijan (2,484) | −0.23 | 0.36 |
Egypt (5,640) | −0.40 | 0.019 |
India (71,289) | −0.42 | <0.0001 |
Swaziland (4,053) | −0.49 | 0.09 |
Uganda (2,456) | −0.65 | 0.002 |
Colombia (28,273)** | −0.18 | 0.025 |
South Africa (5,591)** | −0.56 | <0.001 |
Notes:
*n = 7 countries; 10,746 neighborhoods; 119,786 individuals.
**(Age 15+ y).
Correlations are based on the neighborhood-level covariance in underweight and overweight from age-adjusted models.