Table 4.

Ethnic differences in the age- and gender-adjusted probabilities of children aged between 2 and 15 being at or above the International Obesity Task Force thresholds for obesity^*, rather than normal or under-weight – stratified data

	1998–2001	N	2002–2005	N	2006–2009	N	Variations in obesity over time†
White English	0.05 [0.05, 0.06]	8, 787	0.07 [0.06, 0.07]	10, 554	0.06 [0.06, 0.06]	17, 259	12.65 (0.002)
White Irish	0.02 [0.00, 0.04]	189	0.07 [0.04, 0.10]	505	0.06 [0.03, 0.09]	223	8.53 (0.014)
Other White	0.08 [0.04, 0.11]	195	0.09 [0.05, 0.12]	291	0.07 [0.05, 0.10]	559	0.52 (0.77)
Black Caribbean	0.05 [0.02, 0.08]	645	0.10 [0.07, 0.14]	561	0.11 [0.08, 0.14]	542	10.00 (0.007)
Black African	0.05 [0.01, 0.09]	121	0.11 [0.07, 0.15]	453	0.11 [0.08, 0.13]	544	5.96 (0.051)
Indian	0.05 [0.02, 0.09]	587	0.08 [0.05, 0.11]	582	0.06 [0.04, 0.08]	578	2.08 (0.35)
Pakistani	0.09 [0.04, 0.15]	804	0.08 [0.05, 0.11]	630	0.10 [0.08, 0.12]	657	1.34 (0.51)
Bangladeshi	0.04 [−0.00, 0.07]	611	0.14 [0.08, 0.20]	442	0.12 [0.06, 0.18]	221	9.86 (0.007)
Other South Asian	0.04 [−0.00, 0.08]	132	0.05 [0.02, 0.09]	180	0.06 [0.04, 0.08]	587	1.30 (0.52)
Chinese	−	253	0.02 [0.00, 0.03]	187	0.06 [−0.00, 0.12]	49	8.28 (0.016)
Other	0.05 [0.02, 0.08]	269	0.11 [0.06, 0.16]	273	0.08 [0.05, 0.11]	326	3.85 (0.15)
Ethnic variations in obesity†	463.14 (<0.001)		56.26 (<0.001)		36.19 (<0.001)

Note: Age- and gender-adjusted predictive margins [95% confidence intervals].

Only those with unweighted N's of over 30 are included in table.

^*Age and gender-specific cut-off points for children extrapolated from adult body mass index cut-offs of 30 kg m⁻².

^†χ² (P-value).