Television viewing and its association with overweight in Colombian children: results from the 2005 National Nutrition Survey: A cross sectional study

Table 1 Prevalence of television viewing by sociodemographic characteristics among 11,137 children aged 5 to 12 years. Analysis conducted from the National Nutrition Survey (ENSIN) Colombia. 2005

Characteristics	n*	< 2 hrs/day		2 – 3.9 hrs/day		≥ 4 hrs/day		p
		P**	SE	P**	SE	P**	SE
All participants	11,137	41.5	0.03	36.8	0.02	21.7	0.02
Age groups, yrs
5–8	5,539	45.7	0.04	34.8	0.02	19.5	0.02	< 0.001
9–12	5,598	37.4	0.03	38.7	0.03	23.9	0.02
Sex
Male	5,568	39.4	0.05	38.1	0.03	22.5	0.03	< 0.001
Female	5,569	43.6	0.03	35.4	0.02	21.0	0.02
Socio Economic Status
Level 1 (Lowest)	4,576	56.0	0.04	28.9	0.03	15.1	0.02	< 0.001
Level 2	4,124	34.7	0.04	41.1	0.03	24.2	0.03
Level 3 to 6 (Middle – high)	2,437	33.5	0.05	40.3	0.04	26.2	0.03
Levels of urbanization
Level I (rural and urban areas with 10.00 inhs or less)	7,946	51.1	0.04	32.9	0.03	16.0	0.03	< 0.001
Level II (10.001 to 30.000 inhs)	833	30.4	0.01	42.1	0.01	27.5	0.01
Level III (30.001 to 100.000 inhs)	1,292	33.7	0.08	39.4	0.07	26.9	0.03
Level IV (more than 100.000 inhs)	1,066	28.7	0.01	42.1	0.01	29.2	0.01

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