Effect of Parental Migration Background on Childhood Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Body Mass Index

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of 8-year-old children born between 1994 and 1996 in Stockholm, by parental migration status.

	Swedish	Immigrant				Total
		Any parent	Both parents	Only mother	Only father
Number of children	2028	561	171	200	190	2589
Proportion (%)	78.3	21.7	6.6	7.7	7.3	100
Sex (%)
Girls (𝑛=1267)	47.9	52.8	56.7	47.5	54.7	48.9
Boys (𝑛=1322)	52.1	47.2	43.3	52.5	45.3	51.1
Dietary score (%)
Low	49.8	43.0	48.0	49.5	31.6	48.3
High	50.2	57.0	52.0	50.5	68.4	51.7
Physical activity (%)
Low activity	22.8	28.0	33.9	22.1	29.0	24.0
Active	77.2	72.0	66.1	77.9	71.0	76.0
Iso-BMI^a (%)
<25 kg/m^2	79.7	74.2	69.0	77.0	75.8	78.5
25–30 kg/m^2	16.7	18.5	20.5	18.5	16.8	17.1
≥30 kg/m^2	3.6	7.3	10.5	4.5	7.4	4.4
Parental education^b (%)
≤9 years	1.7	3.8	4.7	2.5	4.2	2.1
10–12 years	44.6	41.1	42.1	38.5	42.9	43.9
>12 years	53.7	55.2	53.2	59.0	52.9	54.0

^aSex- and age-standardized BMI corresponds to adult cut-off points.
^bCompleted years of education.