Overweight among Four-Year-Old Children in Relation to Early Growth Characteristics and Socioeconomic Factors

Table 1

Demografic- and Socioeconomic characteristics of the populations in the two districts.

	District A (dA)	District B (dB)	$P$-value
Number of inhabitants	27163	19909
Inhabitants born abroad, $n$ (%)	2321 (8.5)	929 (4.6)	$<$.0001
Unemployment, $n$ (%)	1062 (3.9)	534 (2.7)	$<$.0001
Index for “unhealthy rate”	51.4	23.2	${}^{*}$
Higher education ($>$12 years), $n$ (%)	2865 (10.5)	4794 (24.1)	$<$.0001
Income (Mean, Swedish Crowns per year)	177000	256000	${}^{*}$
Inhabitants on sick leave for more than one year, $n$ (%)	2330 (8.6)	768 (3.8)	$<$.0001

${}^{*}\hspace{0.17em}\hspace{0.17em}P$-value could not be estimated since only mean values were available and not the distributions.