Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants in the OSSLS2 by BMI classification
Total sample | BMI classification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal | Overweight | ||||||
n | (%)1 | n | (%)1 | n | (%)1 | ||
All | 685 | 502 | (73) | 183 | (27) | ||
Sex | |||||||
Girls | 299 | (44) | 219 | (73) | 80 | (27) | |
Boys | 386 | (56) | 283 | (73) | 103 | (27) | |
Ethnicity | |||||||
NZEO | 616 | (90) | 461 | (75) | 155 | (25) | |
Māori | 59 | (9) | 38 | (64) | 21 | (36) | |
Pacific | 10 | (1) | 3 | (30) | 7 | (70) | |
School year | |||||||
11 | 304 | (44) | 219 | (72) | 85 | (28) | |
12 | 205 | (30) | 154 | (75) | 51 | (25) | |
13 | 176 | (26) | 129 | (73) | 47 | (27) | |
School decile | |||||||
Middle | 267 | (39) | 185 | (69) | 82 | (31) | |
High | 418 | (61) | 317 | (76) | 101 | (24) | |
NZDep06 | |||||||
1 (Least) | 283 | (42) | 208 | (74) | 75 | (26) | |
2 | 129 | (19) | 103 | (80) | 26 | (20) | |
3 | 114 | (17) | 78 | (68) | 36 | (32) | |
4 | 98 | (15) | 72 | (73) | 26 | (27) | |
5 (Most) | 44 | (7) | 30 | (68) | 14 | (32) | |