Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of participants in the OSSLS2 by BMI classification
| |
Total sample |
BMI classification |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Normal |
Overweight |
||||||
| n | (%)1 | n | (%)1 | n | (%)1 | ||
| All |
685 |
|
502 |
(73) |
183 |
(27) |
|
| Sex |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Girls |
299 |
(44) |
219 |
(73) |
80 |
(27) |
| |
Boys |
386 |
(56) |
283 |
(73) |
103 |
(27) |
| Ethnicity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
NZEO |
616 |
(90) |
461 |
(75) |
155 |
(25) |
| |
Māori |
59 |
(9) |
38 |
(64) |
21 |
(36) |
| |
Pacific |
10 |
(1) |
3 |
(30) |
7 |
(70) |
| School year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
11 |
304 |
(44) |
219 |
(72) |
85 |
(28) |
| |
12 |
205 |
(30) |
154 |
(75) |
51 |
(25) |
| |
13 |
176 |
(26) |
129 |
(73) |
47 |
(27) |
| School decile |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Middle |
267 |
(39) |
185 |
(69) |
82 |
(31) |
| |
High |
418 |
(61) |
317 |
(76) |
101 |
(24) |
| NZDep06 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
1 (Least) |
283 |
(42) |
208 |
(74) |
75 |
(26) |
| |
2 |
129 |
(19) |
103 |
(80) |
26 |
(20) |
| |
3 |
114 |
(17) |
78 |
(68) |
36 |
(32) |
| |
4 |
98 |
(15) |
72 |
(73) |
26 |
(27) |
| 5 (Most) | 44 | (7) | 30 | (68) | 14 | (32) | |
OSSLS2 Otago School Students Lifestyle Survey Two, NZEO New Zealand European and Other, NZDep06 New Zealand Deprivation Index.
1Row percentage, unadjusted for confounders.