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Table 2 Prevalence of overweight/obesity by socio-demographic characteristics of women: 2003, 2008 and 2014

From: Socio-demographic trends in overweight and obesity among parous and nulliparous women in Ghana

 

Parous women

Nulliparous women

2003 (N = 3271)

2008 (N = 2859)

2014 (N = 2898)

2003 (N = 1563)

2008 (N = 1521)

2014 (N = 1370)

Characteristic

%

%

%

%

%

%

Age group (years)

 15–24

12.4

13.2

24.4

11.9

14.2

15.2

 25–34

29.1

36.6

47.9

28.3

36.2

52.0

 35–44

38.1

43.6

55.1

51.5

48.7

73.5

 45+

34.1

41

52.7

30.3

60.3

69.1

Educational level

 No education

18.0

21.9

27.5

11.8

14.8

18.4

 Primary

35.0

35.3

47.8

13.0

14.3

8.5

 Middle/JSS/JHS

31.5

43.4

54.8

15.5

17.9

17.0

 Secondary/higher

41.3

72.3

66.6

18.3

36.8

36.7

Marital status

 Never married

12.8

29.3

33.4

12.9

16.4

19.7

 Married

31.3

37.4

50.0

31.1

39.8

59.4

 Cohabiting

25.3

27.5

40.8

21.3

28.4

39.9

 Previously married

31.3

42.5

56.1

38.6

30.7

74.4

Wealth quintile

 Poorest

8.9

12.7

15.9

2.6

8.4

4.3

 Poorer

15.6

18.5

31.3

2.7

7.8

7.6

 Middle

23.0

30.3

45.5

5.3

9.1

21.1

 Richer

38.2

50.9

63.9

16.3

24.5

29.1

 Richest

63.5

66.4

75.3

25.1

26.4

38.6

Occupation

 Not working

27.7

33.4

37.6

11.4

10.7

15.3

 Prof/managerial

48

46.4

67.9

22.5

32.5

47.5

 Sales/trade

45.2

48.3

61.0

24.2

30.8

29.2

 Agric

14.1

18.6

21.9

4.9

11.2

6.2

 Manual labour

30.4

32.4

51.7

18.0

20.9

29.6

Type of locality

 Urban

46.8

52.4

60.0

19.3

23.5

29.2

 Rural

18.1

23.3

34.9

7.7

11.1

14.6

Ethnicity

 Akan

33.2

40.9

55.9

15.4

17.7

26.4

 Ga/Adangme

47.1

43.6

58.4

18.5

32.8

32.8

 Ewe

31.7

40.4

44.8

14.6

15.0

26.3

 Mole-Dagbani

13.2

22.9

27.8

11.1

12.1

13.6

 Gurma

6.2

5.7

18.2

12.3

10.1

10.1

 Others

26.7

33.6

48.5

16.0

25.0

17.6

Number of children

 1

23.7

30.1

40.7

-

-

-

 2

36.9

39.2

54.8

-

-

-

 3

32.3

36.9

54.4

-

-

-

 4

35.6

40.7

50.7

-

-

-

 5

31.1

39.8

42.8

-

-

-

 6

24.0

33.0

50.0

-

-

-

 7+

26.5

31.8

35.8

-

-

-

 Total

30.1

36.0

47.9

15.2

18.5

23.6