Association of socioeconomic status with overall overweight and central obesity in men and women: the French Nutrition and Health Survey 2006

Table 1 Social and demographic characteristics of the 2,388 adults aged 18–74 years (pregnant women excluded) with complete anthropometry measurements, compared to national census data, the French Nutrition and Health Survey (ENNS 2006–2007).

	Raw data		Weighted* data		Census data
	Men	Women	Men	Women
Age (%) in years
18–29	12.8	10.0	22.6	20.7	22.0
30–54	51.0	55.5	49.9	49.6	49.7
55–74	36.2	34.5	27.5	29.6	28.3
Birthplace (%)
France (including overseas territories)	89.7	88.2	91.7	91.0	87.9
Europe	2.3	3.0	3.5	3.0
Africa	6.2	4.9	4.4	4.6	12.1^§
Other	0.7	1.2	0.4	1.4
Missing	1.1	2.7	-	-
Marital status (%)
Married	63.0	57.1	60.6	57.7	54.8
Living together unmarried	10.7	13.8	11.4	14.8	34.1^₣
Single	17.1	11.3	22.9	15.5
Separated/divorced/widowed	9.2	17.8	5.1	11.9	11.1
At least one child at home (%)
Yes	35.6	41.7	35.9	35.5	35.7
No	64.4	58.3	64.1	64.5	64.3
Occupation (%)
Management/intermediate profession	30.1	33.7	20.9	16.6	20.2
Self-employed/farmers	6.1	2.6	5.3	2.4	5.2
Manual workers/employees	30.9	25.2	41.5	39.4	33.1
Retired	25.9	22.0	21.0	19.3	24.1
Homemakers, disabled persons, others	7.0	16.5	11.3	22.3	17.4
Education level (%)
University	36.4	33.1	19.6	19.9	19.8
High school	18.9	19.2	17.3	17.2	17.2
Secondary school	35.0	34.1	44.7	40.3	42.5
Primary school	9.5	13.4	18.4	22.6	20.5
Missing	0.2	0.2	-	-	-
Holiday trip during the past 12 months (%)
Yes	71.5	69.6	67.5	67.5	64.6^†
No	27.0	37.8	32.5	32.5	35.4^†
Missing	1.5	2.6	-	-	-
Area of residence (%)
Rural	24.5	23.9	25.9	24.7	22.1^£
[2,000–20,000]	18.7	15.8	18.4	16.1	19.3^£
[20,000–100,000]	13.5	15.2	13.9	15.5	13.5^£
[100,000–2,000,000]	31.6	32.0	32.7	32.4	28.6^£
Paris area	11.7	13.1	9.1	11.4	16.5^£
Alcohol consumption (%)
Moderate	67.1	65.3	67.2	65.8	-
Abstainer	12.2	24.5	13.3	28.9	-
High	19.0	6.2	19.5	5.3	-
Missing	1.7	4.0	-	-	-
Smoking habits (%)
Never-smoker	34.7	54.0	34.7	57.3	-
Current smoker	28.7	23.7	31.2	24.5	-
Former smoker	36.6	22.1	34.1	18.2	-
Missing	-	0.2	-	-	-

*. Weighting accounted for multilevel sampling design and for social and demographic characteristics compared to the national census (age, school diploma, household including at least one child or not).
^§. Born outside France.
^₣. Living together unmarried and single.
^†. 15–79 y.
^£. All population, children included.

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