Table 1.
Descriptive statistics, presented for the total population, by self-rated health status and obesity status.
| Non-Obese at Age 40 (n = 2764) | Obese at Age 40 (n = 1465) | Excellent/Very Good Self-Rated Health (n = 2870) | Good/Fair/ Poor Self-Rated Health (n = 1882) |
Total Population (n = 4224) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion of weighted sample | 65.4% | 34.6% | 63.5% | 36.5% | 100% |
| Mean Body Mass Index (SD) | 25.0 (2.9) | 34.8 (4.7) | 27.2 (5.1) | 29.6 (6.5) | 28.1 (5.7) |
| % Reporting health as excellent/very good | 69.9% | 51.5% | 100% | 0% | 64.7% |
| High School Student Composition | |||||
| Mean percent of students classified as disadvantaged (SD) | 17.9% (20.1%) | 20.8% (21.7%) | 17.5% (19.7%) | 21.5% (22.5%) | 18.8% (20.7%) |
| Mean percent of students who were White (SD) | 80.1% (26.1%) | 76.3% (28.7%) | 80.3% (25.9%) | 75.6% (28.7%) | 78.9% (27.0%) |
| Individual Characteristics | |||||
| Childhood socioeconomic position | |||||
| Mean years of maternal education (SD) | 11.9 (2.6) | 11.4 (2.7) | 12.0 (2.5) | 11.2 (2.7) | 11.7 (2.6) |
| Mean paternal education (SD) | 12.1 (3.4) | 11.7 (3.5) | 12.4 (3.4) | 11.3 (3.5) | 12.0 (3.5) |
| Lived in an urban setting as a child | 77.2% | 73.8% | 78.4% | 73.0% | 76.1% |
| Lived in the South as a child | 31.1% | 36.4% | 29.8% | 37.6% | 32.7% |
| Spoke a foreign language as a child | 12.1% | 11.8% | 12.3% | 12.1% | 12.0% |
| Demographics | |||||
| Hispanic | 3.6% | 5.2% | 3.8% | 5.2% | 4.1% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 10.5% | 16.5% | 10.5% | 16.3% | 12.4% |
| Non-Black non-Hispanic | 85.9% | 78.3% | 85.7% | 78.5% | 83.5% |
| Female | 50.7% | 49.5% | 49.6% | 51.6% | 50.3% |
| Educational attainment at age 25 | |||||
| Did not graduate from high school | 10.8% | 10.9% | 9.1% | 17.1% | 10.9% |
| Graduated from high school but not college | 64.5% | 72.6% | 63.4% | 71.1% | 67.0% |
| Graduated from college or beyond | 24.7% | 16.5% | 27.5% | 11.8% | 22.1% |
Sample size reported indicates all individuals for whom information was available on all three measures of high school student composition. For the total population column, the sample size reported is the number of individuals for whom information was available on all student composition measures and both health measures.