Table 2.

Relationship between the nutritional status of individuals and socioeconomic, demographic and lifestyle indicators for all of individuals from I DISANDNT/JP, for the municipality of northeastern Brazil (2008–2010).

Variables		Low weight/normal weight		Overweight		Obesity		Total	p-Value
		n	%	n	%	n	%	N
Age group	0–9	139	68.47	40	19.7	24	11.82	203	0.0000 *
	10–19	158	72.81	42	19.35	17	7.83	217
	20–59	211	43.78	160	43.19	111	23.03	482
	≥60 years	64	34.78	63	34.24	57	30.98	184
Sex	Males	224	60.4	97	26.14	50	13.5	371	0.0000 *
	Females	351	48.89	208	28.97	159	22.14	718
Sex: male (According to age group)	0–9	75	68.18	21	19.09	14	12.73	110	0.0000 *
	10–19	72	72.00	22	22	06	6.00	100
	20–59	47	48.96	32	33.33	17	17.71	96
	≥60 years	25	41.67	22	36.67	13	21.66	60
Sex: female (According to age group)	0–9	64	68.82	19	20.43	10	10.75	93	0.0000 *
	10–19	85	73.28	20	17.24	11	9.48	116
	20–59	164	42.49	128	33.16	94	24.35	386
	≥60 years	38	30.90	41	33.33	44	35.77	123
Schooling 1	Up to elementary school	281	53.12	133	25.14	115	21.74	529	* 0.0025
	≥incomplete high school	290	52.16	172	30.93	94	16.91	556	0.0000 *
Schooling according to age group
Up to elementary school	0–9	84	74.34	16	14.16	13	11.50	113	0.0000 *
	10–19	80	74.07	19	17.59	9	8.33	108
	20–59	81	42.86	54	28.57	54	28.57	189
	≥60 years	36	30.25	44	36.98	39	32.77	119
≥incomplete high school	0–9	55	61.11	24	26.67	11	12.22	90	0.5515
	10–19	78	71.56	23	21.10	8	7.34	109
	20–59	130	44.37	106	36.18	57	19.45	293
	≥60 years	27	42.19	19	29.69	18	28.12	64
Family income (R$)2	≤1000	304	54.19	110	19.61	147	26.20	561	0.0000 *
	>1000	252	51.01	153	30.97	89	18.02	494
Family income according to age group
<Median	0–9	86	70.5	21	17.2	15	12.3	122	0.0000 *
	10–19	89	72.35	26	21.13	8	6.50	123
	20–59	103	33.1	70	29.3	66	27.6	239
	≥60 years	24	32.87	28	38.5	21	28.76	73
≥Median	0–9	47	46.4	18	26.08	5	7.24	69	>0.0000 *
	10–19	63	71.6	16	18.18	9	10.22	88
	20–59	105	45.06	87	37.33	41	17.60	233
	≥60 years	36	35.3	32	31.37	34	33.33	102
Smoking	no	523	52.88	281	28.41	185	18.71	989	0.0471 *
	yes	49	50.52	24	24.74	24	24.71	97
Alcohol consumption	no	498	53.72	257	27.72	172	18.56	927	0.1785
	yes	73	46.20	48	30.38	37	23.42	158
Pract. physical activity	no	526	53.24	273	27.63	189	19.13	988	0.4611
(5 times/week)	yes	46	46.94	32	32.65	20	20.41	98

Notes: * p < 0.05; ¹ < elementary school, corresponding to 9 years or less of schooling, and ≥incomplete high school, corresponding to more than 9 years of education, ² Median family income, R$1000.00, or $492.02. Abbreviations: SD—standard deviation, BMI—body mass index.