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Table 1 Descriptive analysis of the proportions classified as normal weight, overweight and obese, as well as those who consumed breakfast, lunch and dinner yesterday, and never TV watching at breakfast, lunch and dinner, related to weight status, gender, parental education, ethnicity and country

From: Associations between eating meals, watching TV while eating meals and weight status among children, ages 10–12 years in eight European countries: the ENERGY cross-sectional study

Total

N

Normal weight

Overweight

Obese

Breakfast yesterday

Lunch yesterday

Dinner yesterday

Never TV at breakfast

Never TV at lunch

Never TV at dinner

  

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

 

7915

77

18

5

85

96

93

55

46

32

Normal weight

5953

   

87

96

95

55

48

34

Overweight

1413

   

79

96

89

54

40

28

Obese

351

   

69

95

79

52

33

24

p-value

    

≤0.001

0.20

≤0.001

0.30

≤0.001

≤0.001

Girls

4120

79

17

4

83

96

93

58

58

33

Boys

3795

75

20

5

86

96

93

51

44

32

p-value

 

≤0.001

0.001

0.03

0.001

0.35

0.43

≤0.001

0.002

0.79

Low education

2020

73

21

6

81

96

91

55

43

29

High education

3719

80

17

3

88

97

94

59

50

35

p-value

 

≤0.001

0.002

≤0.001

≤0.001

0.18

≤0.001

0.003

≤0.001

≤0.001

Non-native

617

74

19

6

79

96

92

51

33

28

Native

7175

77

18

4

85

96

93

55

47

33

p-value

 

0.12

0.64

0.02

≤0.001

0.70

0.43

0.03

≤0.001

0.01

Belgium

1008

85

12

3

87

99

99

58

64

42

Greece

1100

59

30

10

76

97

82

60

17

13

Hungary

1022

75

20

5

77

94

92

54

54

28

The Netherlands

959

84

12

4

92

96

98

45

40

42

Norway

1006

86

13

1

93

89

97

41

40

38

Slovenia

1187

73

21

6

73

97

88

60

59

35

Spain

1025

75

22

3

97

100

97

48

32

18

Switzerland

608

86

12

2

85

99

96

84

74

54

p-value

 

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001

≤0.001