Table 1 Number of respondents, prevalence of overweight and current attempts to lose weight, missing responses on body mass index and trying to lose weight by country and gender.
From: Attempts to lose weight among overweight and non-overweight adolescents: a cross-national survey
N | Overweight1 % | Currently trying to lose weight % | Missings on BMI % | Missings on trying to lose weight % | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
Austria | 1414 | 1425 | 14.8 | 10.29 | 10.6 | 18.3 | 9.1 | 6.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
Belgium (Fl) | 1993 | 2143 | 12.5 | 9.4 | 6.0 | 14.2 | 7.3 | 5.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 |
Belgium (Fr) | 1348 | 1536 | 13.8 | 10.3 | 7.8 | 20.7 | 25.5 | 26.5 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
Canada | 1237 | 1483 | 24.6 | 15.7 | 8.8 | 25.0 | 11.0 | 13.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
Croatia | 1397 | 1529 | 15.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 22.7 | 5.0 | 3.73 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Czech Rep. | 1586 | 1735 | 13.6 | 6.8 | 9.3 | 25.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Denmark | 1428 | 1509 | 11.9 | 10.1 | 11.9 | 33.7 | 11.3 | 10.7 | 1.0 | 1.8 |
England | 1804 | 2014 | 17.7 | 14.5 | 9.9 | 23.2 | 31.1 | 34.3 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
Estonia | 1308 | 1382 | 10.4 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 12.2 | 5.7 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Finland | 1740 | 1719 | 17.3 | 10.6 | 4.5 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 |
France | 2722 | 2792 | 13.7 | 9.9 | 7.4 | 17.6 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
Germany | 1721 | 1820 | 15.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 19.6 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
Greece | 1243 | 1312 | 23.9 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 22.7 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
Ireland | 796 | 1067 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 3.9 | 15.8 | 49.7 | 56.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Israel | 1584 | 2023 | 15.1 | 9.0 | 3.3 | 12.2 | 21.8 | 22.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 |
Italy | 1327 | 1518 | 21.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 25.3 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
Latvia | 1046 | 1224 | 8.8 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 17.2 | 11.7 | 7.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
Lithuania | 1935 | 1842 | 6.4 | 3.8 | 8.4 | 21.8 | 23.1 | 17.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Macedonia | 1335 | 1442 | 17.1 | 6.9 | 10.6 | 19.9 | 9.3 | 10.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
Malta | 632 | 708 | 31.3 | 19.8 | 4.5 | 10.4 | 39.3 | 45.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
Netherlands | 1420 | 1372 | 9.5 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 24.4 | 10.1 | 8.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
Norway | 1677 | 1681 | 15.9 | 9.4 | 7.5 | 23.6 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
Poland | 2104 | 2131 | 10.5 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 11.5 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Portugal | 834 | 929 | 19.7 | 10.9 | 6.4 | 20.7 | 6.9 | 9.1 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
Russia | 2532 | 2981 | 7.3 | 3.7 | 8.5 | 26.6 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Scotland | 1309 | 1346 | 16.2 | 12.1 | 5.6 | 15.0 | 46.7 | 51.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Slovenia | 1232 | 1223 | 18.5 | 10.6 | 7.2 | 16.4 | 4.6 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
Spain | 1812 | 1909 | 23.9 | 11.8 | 3.3 | 17.9 | 20.0 | 15.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
Sweden | 1215 | 1194 | 13.8 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 21.2 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
Switzerland | 1535 | 1581 | 11.2 | 6.7 | 17.4 | 27.3 | 10.1 | 9.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Ukraine | 1321 | 1577 | 6.7 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 10.8 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
USA | 1648 | 1898 | 31.7 | 20.2 | 11.2 | 26.3 | 9.9 | 9.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Wales | 1324 | 1212 | 23.5 | 17.8 | 5.1 | 12.2 | 24.3 | 15.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Total | 50965 | 55154 | 15.4 | 9.3 | 7.5 | 19.8 | 12.6 | 12.5 | 2.9 | 3.4 |