| Table 3: Prevalence (%) of self-perceived weight with 95% confidence intervals (CI) among 15-year-old overweight adolescents by survey year. |
| | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) |
| | Overweight boys | | | | | |
| | Too thin | 2.9 (0.8–10.2) | 1.0 (0.1–7.2) | 1.8 (0.6–5.4) | 2.2 (0.7–6.6) | 2.4 (0.9–6.4) | | About right | 31.4 (20.8–44.5) | 29.6 (21.6–39.0) | 36.0 (27.7–45.1) | 32.4 (24.5–41.4) | 33.9 (26.6–42.1) | | Too fat | 65.7 (54.0–75.8) | 69.4 (59.7–77.6) | 62.2 (53.4–70.3) | 65.5 (56.2–73.7) | 63.6 (55.3–71.2) |
| | Overweight girls | | | | | |
| | Too thin | | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 (0.1–7.0) | 1.8 (0.4–6.9) | | About right | | 9.4 (4.4–19.0) | 1.2 (0.2–8.4) | 5.9 (2.7–12.5) | 9.7 (5.6–1.6) | | Too fat | 100.0 | 90.6 (81.0–95.6) | 98.8 (91.6–99.8) | 93.1 (86.2–96.6) | 88.5 (81.7–93.0) |
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= Number of overweight adolescents in the sample.
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