Table 2.

Prevalence of overweight/obesity by socio-demographic characteristics of women: 2003, 2008 and 2014

	Parous women			Nulliparous women
	2003 (N = 3271)	2008 (N = 2859)	2014 (N = 2898)	2003 (N = 1563)	2008 (N = 1521)	2014 (N = 1370)
Characteristic	%	%	%	%	%	%
Age group (years)
15–24	12.4	13.2	24.4	11.9	14.2	15.2
25–34	29.1	36.6	47.9	28.3	36.2	52.0
35–44	38.1	43.6	55.1	51.5	48.7	73.5
45+	34.1	41	52.7	30.3	60.3	69.1
Educational level
No education	18.0	21.9	27.5	11.8	14.8	18.4
Primary	35.0	35.3	47.8	13.0	14.3	8.5
Middle/JSS/JHS	31.5	43.4	54.8	15.5	17.9	17.0
Secondary/higher	41.3	72.3	66.6	18.3	36.8	36.7
Marital status
Never married	12.8	29.3	33.4	12.9	16.4	19.7
Married	31.3	37.4	50.0	31.1	39.8	59.4
Cohabiting	25.3	27.5	40.8	21.3	28.4	39.9
Previously married	31.3	42.5	56.1	38.6	30.7	74.4
Wealth quintile
Poorest	8.9	12.7	15.9	2.6	8.4	4.3
Poorer	15.6	18.5	31.3	2.7	7.8	7.6
Middle	23.0	30.3	45.5	5.3	9.1	21.1
Richer	38.2	50.9	63.9	16.3	24.5	29.1
Richest	63.5	66.4	75.3	25.1	26.4	38.6
Occupation
Not working	27.7	33.4	37.6	11.4	10.7	15.3
Prof/managerial	48	46.4	67.9	22.5	32.5	47.5
Sales/trade	45.2	48.3	61.0	24.2	30.8	29.2
Agric	14.1	18.6	21.9	4.9	11.2	6.2
Manual labour	30.4	32.4	51.7	18.0	20.9	29.6
Type of locality
Urban	46.8	52.4	60.0	19.3	23.5	29.2
Rural	18.1	23.3	34.9	7.7	11.1	14.6
Ethnicity
Akan	33.2	40.9	55.9	15.4	17.7	26.4
Ga/Adangme	47.1	43.6	58.4	18.5	32.8	32.8
Ewe	31.7	40.4	44.8	14.6	15.0	26.3
Mole-Dagbani	13.2	22.9	27.8	11.1	12.1	13.6
Gurma	6.2	5.7	18.2	12.3	10.1	10.1
Others	26.7	33.6	48.5	16.0	25.0	17.6
Number of children
1	23.7	30.1	40.7	-	-	-
2	36.9	39.2	54.8	-	-	-
3	32.3	36.9	54.4	-	-	-
4	35.6	40.7	50.7	-	-	-
5	31.1	39.8	42.8	-	-	-
6	24.0	33.0	50.0	-	-	-
7+	26.5	31.8	35.8	-	-	-
Total	30.1	36.0	47.9	15.2	18.5	23.6