Table 3.
Sex-specific Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity by Different Socio-economic Status Indices
| Overweight N (%) | Obesity N (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | P | Women | P | Men | P | Women | P | ||
| Asset Index | Quintile 1 | 116 (49.0) | <0.001* | 283 (68.7) | 0.001* | 29 (12.5) | 0.118* | 110 (27.4) | <0.001* |
| Quintile 2 | 131 (53.0) | 215 (70.7) | 28 (11.5) | 93 (31.2) | |||||
| Quintile 3 | 171 (59.2) | 229 (73.6) | 43 (15.0) | 106 (34.5) | |||||
| Quintile 4 | 181 (58.0) | 228 (77.8) | 57 (18.5) | 113 (39.0) | |||||
| Quintile 5 | 241 (65.1) | 176 (78.2) | 54 (14.7) | 89 (40.5) | |||||
| C Monthly Household Income (10,000 RLS) |
<250 | 68 (53.1) | 0.001* | 171 (65.0) | 0.006* | 14 (11.2) | 0.352* | 63 (25.2) | 0.100* |
| 250–500 | 70 (59.3) | 141 (72.7) | 17 (14.5) | 52 (27.5) | |||||
| 500–1000 | 430 (53.4) | 649 (74.5) | 113 (14.2) | 317 (36.8) | |||||
| 1000–2000 | 243 (66.8) | 140 (80.0) | 59 (16.3) | 68 (39.1) | |||||
| >2000 | 21 (70.0) | 13 (81.3) | 6 (20.7) | 6 (37.5) | |||||
| Education level | No Education | 174 (55.2) | 0.664* | 536 (69.0) | 0.256* | 47 (15.3) | 0.092* | 219 (29.1) | 0.018* |
| Primary | 227 (56.8) | 350 (76.3) | 54 (13.6) | 161 (35.5) | |||||
| Secondary | 159 (57.6) | 114 (75.5) | 43 (15.8) | 63 (42.0) | |||||
| High School | 171 (59.6) | 104 (83.2) | 49 (17.1) | 52 (41.6) | |||||
| University | 109 (61.6) | 27 (81.8) | 18 (10.2) | 16 (48.5) | |||||
| Employment Status | Employed | 75 (56.4) | 0.762† | 16 (69.6) | 0.452† | 22 (16.5) | 0.173† | 10 (43.5) | 0.122† |
| Unemployed** | 70 (55.1) | 1017 (72.9) | 11 (9.1) | 450 (32.9) | |||||
| Retired | 695 (58.2) | 98 (77.8) | 178 (15.0) | 51 (40.8) | |||||
*Ps = Trend test across ordered groups
**Homemaker for women
† P for Pearson Chi-squared test