Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics
| % | Frequencies n = 1629 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Gender | ||
| Boys | 52.85 | 861 |
| Girls | 47.15 | 768 |
| Body weight status | ||
| Overweight IOTF23 | 45.30 | 738 |
| Obese IOTF27 | 29.47 | 480 |
| Family income | ||
| Low income (< 50,000 RMB) | 30.96 | 357 |
| Middle income (50,000–92,376 RMB) | 36.17 | 417 |
| High income (> 92,376 RMB) | 32.87 | 379 |
| District income | ||
| Low income | 29.16 | 475 |
| Middle income | 31.31 | 510 |
| High income | 39.53 | 644 |
| Parental education | ||
| <HS | 19.26 | 306 |
| HS diploma | 13.66 | 217 |
| Some college | 22.59 | 359 |
| BA + | 44.49 | 707 |
| Hukou status | ||
| Urban | 69.12 | 1119 |
| Rural | 30.88 | 500 |
| Birth order | ||
| First birth | 87.42 | 1418 |
| Higher order birth | 12.58 | 204 |
| Grandparents in household | 42.48 | 692 |
| Care arrangement | ||
| Parent | 47.07 | 730 |
| Grandparent | 24.76 | 384 |
| Formal care | 26.95 | 418 |
| Others | 1.23 | 19 |
| Health insurance | 79.94 | 1156 |
| Child general health | ||
| Good | 86.68 | 1399 |
| Poor | 13.32 | 215 |
| Mother’s work schedule | ||
| Not-working | 21.55 | 344 |
| Standard daytime hours | 62.09 | 991 |
| Nonstandard hours | 16.35 | 261 |
Note: Descriptive statistics are shown for the full sample