Table 1.

Basic sociodemographic characteristics of the study population

	Nepal			Bangladesh
	N = 6,144	Overweight (14)	Obese (13.5)	N = 17,683	Overweight (15.3)	Obese (24.2)
Age (years)
15–24	40.6	29.6	15.4	29.0	23.0	16.0
25–34	29.4	33.6	37.2	35.6	39.5	40.8
35–44	21.8	29.1	33.5	25.3	28.4	31.3
44+	8.2	7.6	13.8	10.1	9.1	11.8
p	<0.0001			<0.0001
Residency
Urban	28.3	33.0	49.0	34.4	37.9	50.5
Rural	71.7	67.0	51.0	65.6	62.1	49.5
p		0.0001			0.0001
Education
No education	38.5	36.4	31.7	23.5	20.3	16.2
Primary	17.0	16.2	18.4	29.2	27.4	24.8
Secondary	36.3	37.7	39.4	33.8	40.4	43.3
Higher	8.2	9.7	10.4	9.5	11.9	15.7
p		0.001			0.000
Working
No	35.9	34.8	43.0	68.5	68.0	72.0
Yes	64.1	65.2	57.0	31.5	32.0	28.0
p		<0.0001			0.010
Parity
0	30.7	21.9	14.4	9.9	9.0	6.2
1	13.8	14.9	15.3	22.3	21.5	20.2
2	18.8	22.9	28.7	26.4	29.4	32.3
2+	36.7	40.4	41.6	41.4	40.1	41.4
p		0.031			<0.0001
Frequency of watching TV
Not at all	23.9	22.2	9.7	39.5	31.7	22.3
Less than once a week	27.4	23.6	18.9	8.7	8.5	7.2
At least once a week	48.7	54.2	71.3	51.8	59.8	70.4
p		<0.0001			0.003
Wealth status
Richest	24.4	33.9	52.4	21.5	25.2	42.3
Richer	19.4	20.9	23.3	21.2	25.3	24.6
Middle	18.7	17.2	11.3	20.3	20.7	16.2
Poorer	18.3	14.5	8.0	18.8	16.5	10.1
Poorest	19.2	13.5	5.0	18.2	12.3	6.9
p	<0.0001			<0.0001