Table 1.

Proportion overweight and obese by selected characteristics: California children, adolescents and young adults, Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (2006–2008, N = 1143) and California Health Interview Survey (2005, 2007, 2009, N = 25,487).

Proportion overweight or obese (N)	Full sample	Ethnicity/nativity
		Mexican-origin, generation			Non-Hispanic white
		1st	2nd	3rd+
A. L.A.FANS
Full sample	0.47 (1143)	0.67 (127)	0.50 (538)	0.49 (190)	0.35 (288)
Child (ages 4–11)
Female	0.43 (185)	0.44 (11)	0.53 (102)	0.50 (31)	0.21 (41)
Male	0.41 (196)	0.71 (15)	0.48 (92)	0.39 (34)	0.23 (55)
Adolescent (ages 12–17)
Female	0.39 (215)	0.86 (21)	0.36 (109)	0.26 (33)	0.33 (52)
Male	0.54 (222)	0.66 (21)	0.55 (118)	0.61 (33)	0.49 (50)
Adult (ages 18–24)
Female	0.54 (171)	0.56 (34)	0.64 (60)	0.58 (34)	0.39 (43)
Male	0.53 (154)	0.72 (25)	0.49 (57)	0.63 (25)	0.43 (47)
B. CHIS
Full sample	0.39 (25,487)	0.47 (1623)	0.50 (3570)	0.46 (2662)	0.33 (17,632)
Child (ages 4–11)
Female	0.41 (5678)	0.52 (92)	0.52 (622)	0.52 (630)	0.35 (4334)
Male	0.44 (6065)	0.61 (105)	0.58 (623)	0.55 (653)	0.38 (4684)
Adolescent (ages 12–17)
Female	0.28 (4055)	0.33 (285)	0.41 (651)	0.40 (392)	0.19 (2727)
Male	0.36 (4222)	0.41 (289)	0.46 (689)	0.39 (392)	0.31 (2852)
Adult (ages 18–24)
Female	0.35 (2672)	0.39 (437)	0.40 (467)	0.37 (315)	0.31 (1453)
Male	0.45 (2795)	0.60 (415)	0.58 (518)	0.46 (280)	0.37 (1582)

CHIS = California Health Interview Survey, L.A.FANS = Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. Cell values are proportion of respondents who are classified as overweight or obese using the CDC Growth Chart 85th percentile cutoff (children and adolescents) or the WHO BMI overweight cutoff of BMI ≥25 (young adults), based on parent-reported height and weight (children) or self-reported height and weight (adolescents and young adults). Sample sizes are shown in parentheses. Percentages are weighted for the CHIS and L.A.FANS sampling schemes, Ns are unweighted.