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Table 1 Summary statistics. Peru. 2005–2012, women aged 15–49

From: Within-country migration and obesity dynamics: analysis of 94,783 women from the Peruvian demographic and health surveys

 

2005

2007

2008

2009

2011

2012

Sample size

5803

5932

14,957

22,969

21,761

23,361

Obesity (Prevalence %)

13

15

14

16

17

18

Age (Mean years)

30

31

31

31

31

31

Education (Mean years of schooling)

9

9

9

10

10

10

Wealth Index (Mean quintile)

3

4

4

3

3

3

Duration in place of residence

22

22

22

22

21

22

(Mean years)

      

Migration status

% (Column)

Urban stayers

41

39

42

43

40

41

Intra-urban migrants

22

23

23

24

25

24

Rural stayers

20

18

17

15

14

13

Rural-to-Urban migrants

6

10

9

8

10

10

Intra-rural migrants

5

6

5

5

6

6

Urban-to-Rural migrants

7

5

5

5

5

6

Ethnicity (language)

% (Column)

Spanish speaker

96

95

96

96

96

95

Quechua

2

5

4

3

4

4

Aymara

1

0

0

1

0

1

Other

0

0

0

0

0

0

  1. Standard deviations are almost constant across years for the continuous variables:
  2. Age (9.9–10.1); Education (3.8–4.3); Wealth index (1.3–1.4); Duration in place of residence (12.5–12.8)