Table 1.

Weighted descriptive statistics for the overall sample and by sex.

	All	Men	Women
	N = 13,943	N = 6714	N = 7229
	% or mean (SD)	% or mean (SD)	% or mean (SD)
Suicide ideation (1=yes)	6.60	6.20	7.03
Weight classification
Normal or healthy weight (reference)	46.98	44.57	49.59
Underweight	2.82	2.03	3.68
Overweight	27.21	31.83	22.23
Obese class I	13.18	13.73	12.58
Obese class II	5.91	5.16	6.73
Obese class III or severe obesity	3.90	2.69	5.20
Weight perceptions
About the right weight (reference)	47.69	51.25	43.84
Underweight	12.76	18.08	7.03
Overweight	39.55	30.66	49.13
Fair/poor health status (1=yes)	4.88	3.79	6.05
High levels of depressive symptoms (1=yes)	14.37	11.59	17.36
Parents married (1=yes)	73.60	73.86	73.31
Parent's highest level of educational attainment
Less than a high school degree (reference)	16.41	16.03	16.83
High school degree or GED	31.68	31.13	32.27
Some postsecondary education	29.04	30.02	27.98
Bachelor's degree or more	22.87	22.82	22.92
Adolescent family income	2.35 (0.06)	2.32 (0.06)	2.39 (0.07)
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic, White (reference)	65.37	64.72	66.06
Hispanic	11.86	12.19	11.50
Non-Hispanic, Black	15.40	15.24	15.56
Non-Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander	3.89	4.05	3.73
Non-Hispanic, Other	3.48	3.79	3.15
Age	21.83 (0.12)	21.92 (0.12)	21.73 (0.12)
U.S. born (1=yes)	93.98	93.81	94.16
Married (1=yes)	15.74	13.00	18.69
Has children (1=yes)	18.79	13.94	24.01
Lives with parents (1=yes)	40.63	44.27	36.71
Attending postsecondary school (1=yes)	36.04	31.97	40.40
Employed at least 10 h/week (1=yes)	70.12	72.38	67.70

Source: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.