TABLE 3 .

Percentage of Women Reporting Day-to-day Problems, Body Image Dissatisfaction, Sexual Dissatisfaction, and Stigma and Discrimination by Level of BMI and Background Characteristics, Delhi, 2003

	Day-to-day problems		Dissatisfaction with body image		Sexual dissatisfaction		Stigma and discrimination
Women’s characteristics	%	χ2p values	%	χ2p values	%	χ2p values	%	χ2p values
Current body mass index (kg/m2)		<0.0001		<0.0001		0.256		<0.0001
Overweight (25.0–29.99)	46.6		59.4		4.9		5.8
Obese (30.0–34.99)	63.4		80.4		6.8		18.3
Morbidly obese (>35)	80.0		95.0		10.0		32.5
Current age (years)		<0.0001		0.452		0.356		<0.0001
20–34	37.2		77.9		5.1		23.1
35–53	69.6		71.8		7.2		11.4
Education		0.569		0.478		0.965		0.214
Illiterate	71.9		68.8		13.3		12.5
Literate, < middle school complete	63.9		69.4		5.7		19.4
Middle school complete	68.8		86.7		3.3		9.4
High school complete and above	52.2		73.3		5.9		16.2
Religion		0.254		0.257		0.587		0.635
Hindu	57.4		70.8		6.0		14.9
Muslim	75.0		90.0		15.8		25.0
Others	57.1		82.1		3.6		10.7
Caste/tribe status		0.368		0.457		0.789		0.245
Scheduled caste/tribes	52.6		63.2		10.5		15.8
Other class	68.4		73.7		11.1		21.1
Others	58.6		74.9		5.7		14.6
Standard of living index		0.547		0.659		0.234		0.125
Low/medium	64.5		74.2		3.3		22.6
High	58.3		73.0		7.2		13.6
Employment status		0.241		<0.0001		0.524		<0.0001
Not working	59.9		75.3		7.1		16.6
Working	44.4		52.9		0.0		0.0
Media exposure		<0.0001		0.254		0.421		0.354
Read a newspaper	50.0		75.2		3.6		15.5
Never read a newspaper	66.7		72.6		9.1		15.1
Total	58.9		73.8		6.5		15.3