Table 3.

Prevalence (%) of self-perceived weight with 95% confidence intervals (CI) among 15-year-old overweight adolescents by survey year.

	1994	1998	2002	2006	2010
	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)	% (95% CI)
Overweight boys	n = 69	n = 99	n = 152	n = 149	n = 165
Too thin	2.9 (0.8–10.2)	1.0 (0.1–7.2)	1.8 (0.6–5.4)	2.2 (0.7–6.6)	2.4 (0.9–6.4)
About right	31.4 (20.8–44.5)	29.6 (21.6–39.0)	36.0 (27.7–45.1)	32.4 (24.5–41.4)	33.9 (26.6–42.1)
Too fat	65.7 (54.0–75.8)	69.4 (59.7–77.6)	62.2 (53.4–70.3)	65.5 (56.2–73.7)	63.6 (55.3–71.2)
Overweight girls	n = 26	n = 65	n = 81	n = 106	n = 113
Too thin		0.0	0.0	1.0 (0.1–7.0)	1.8 (0.4–6.9)
About right		9.4 (4.4–19.0)	1.2 (0.2–8.4)	5.9 (2.7–12.5)	9.7 (5.6–1.6)
Too fat	100.0	90.6 (81.0–95.6)	98.8 (91.6–99.8)	93.1 (86.2–96.6)	88.5 (81.7–93.0)

n = Number of overweight adolescents in the sample.