The prevalence of underweight, overweight, obesity and associated risk factors among school-going adolescents in seven African countries

Table 2 Sample characteristics by country

Variable		Benin	Djibouti	Egypt	Ghana	Malawi	Mauritania	Morocco
	Code	Proportion
Food insecurity	0	0.823	0.806	0.948	0.781	0.815	0.896	0.893
Food insecurity	1	0.177	0.194	0.052	0.219	0.185	0.104	0.107
Fruit consumption	0	0.668	0.343	0.301	0.266	0.476	0.682	0.472
Fruit consumption	1	0.332	0.657	0.699	0.734	0.524	0.319	0.528
Vegetable consumption	0	0.827	0.392	0.151	0.254	0.763	0.724	0.593
Vegetable consumption	1	0.173	0.608	0.849	0.746	0.237	0.277	0.407
Consistently active	0	0.678	*	*	0.842	*	0.829	0.818
Consistently active	1	0.322	*	*	0.158	*	0.171	0.182
PE class	0	0.743	*	*	*	*	0.700	0.676
PE class	1	0.257	*	*	*	*	0.300	0.324
No walking/biking to school	0	0.894	*	0.504	0.647	*	0.683	0.696
No walking/biking to school	1	0.106	*	0.496	0.353	*	0.317	0.304
Soft drink	0	0.720	*	*	*	*	0.495	0.536
Soft drink	1	0.280	*	*	*	*	0.505	0.464
Fast food	0	0.824	*	0.882	*	*	0.714	0.850
Fast food	1	0.176	*	0.118	*	*	0.286	0.150
Sitting 3+ hours	0	0.810	*	*	0.730	*	0.629	0.740
Sitting 3+ hours	1	0.190	*	*	0.270	*	0.371	0.260
Parental support index	0	0.291	0.350	0.350	0.310	*	0.368	0.378
	1	0.260	0.298	0.264	0.268	*	0.263	0.276
	2	0.222	0.213	0.209	0.234	*	0.190	0.200
	3	0.227	0.140	0.177	0.188	*	0.179	0.146

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