Table 4.
Prevalence of underweight, normal weight, overweight and obesitya based on self-report and direct measurements
| Self-reported n (%) |
Directly-measured n (%) |
Ҡ b value | 95% CI | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underweight | Normal weight | Overweight | Obesity | Underweight | Normal weight | Overweight | Obesity | |||
| All | 64 (9.7) | 479 (72.2) | 83 (12.5) | 37 (5.6) | 40 (6.0) | 498 (75.1) | 81 (12.2) | 44 (6.1) | 0.76 | 0.67, 0.84 |
| Boys | 42 (13.9) | 208 (68.9) | 34 (11.3) | 18 (6.0) | 22 (7.3) | 227 (75.2) | 33 (10.9) | 20 (6.6) | 0.72 | 0.59, 0.85 |
| Girls | 22 (6.1) | 271 (75.1) | 49 (13.6) | 19 (5.3) | 18 (5.0) | 271 (75.1) | 48 (13.3) | 24 (6.6) | 0.79 | 0.67, 0.90 |
aWHO Growth Reference, 5–19 years (2007)
bWeighted kappa statistic (Absolute error weighting method)