Table 1.

Sample Means and Percentages, Weighted and Adjusted for Sampling Design

	Full Sample (N = 7,931)		Women (N = 4,337)		Men (N =3,594)
	1999	2003	1999	2003	1999	2003
Weight, Cawley-adjusted self-report
Body Mass Index	28.3	29.2	31.1	32.2	25.3 ‡	25.8 ‡
Weight classificiation
Underweight	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	2.0% ‡	2.0% ‡
Normal weight (reference)	34.7%	30.1%	17.9%	13.9%	53.7% ‡	48.4% ‡
Overweight	33.6%	33.6%	34.7%	32.5%	32.3%	34.8%
Obese	30.6%	35.3%	47.1%	53.5%	11.9% ‡	14.7% ‡
Weight change (in pounds), 1999 – 2003		5.3		6.7		3.7 ‡
Household food insecurity	6.8%	4.8%	7.9%	5.6%	5.5% ‡	3.9% ‡
Household income (in $1,000s)	--	79,892	--	76,460	--	83,783 ‡
Female (=1)	--	53.1%	--	--	--	--
Children
Co-reside with children (=1)	55.0%	49.9%	56.2%	51.2%	53.6%	48.4% †
Number of children present	1.0	0.9	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9
Relationship to co-residential children (among those living with children)
All borne by her	--	--	--	57.5%	--	--
Some or all not borne by her	--	--	--	42.5%	--	--
Number of children ever borne	--	--	--	2.03	--	--
Age (range: 18 – 55 in 1999)	--	39.4	--	39.3	--	39.5
Education in years (range: 6 – 17)	--	13.5	--	13.4	--	13.6 †
Married or cohabiting (=1)	--	73.3%	--	70.7%	--	76.3% ‡
Poor or fair self-rated health (=1)	--	11.1%	--	12.4%	--	9.7% ‡
Disabled (=1)	--	6.2%	--	7.2%	--	5.1% ‡
Race/ethnicity
non-Hispanic White (reference)	--	80.1%	--	78.8%	--	81.8% ‡
non-Hispanic African American	--	9.9%	--	11.4%	--	8.1% ‡
Hispanic	--	6.1%	--	6.1%	--	6.1%
non-Hipanic other racial group	--	3.9%	--	3.7%	--	4.0%
Metropolitan residence (=1)	--	76.0%	--	76.3%	--	75.7%

Note: Two-tailed tests of a signficant difference between men and women are noted as follows:

^†p < .05,

^‡p < .01