Risk Factors for Overweight and Obesity among Mexican Children in New York

Table 1

Demographic and economic profile of respondents ().

Characteristics	Percent ()
Level of education	Elementary = 26.6%
	Middle school or technical degree = 36.8%
	High school = 16.6%
	College graduate or graduate degree = 20.0%
Occupation	Employed = 76.6%
	Food service or cleaning = 42.3%
	White collar industries = 21%
	Manual laborers = 13.3%
	Homemaker = 23.3% (all women)
	Home-based sales = 16.3% (all women)
Number of children	Average number of children = 3
Age of children	Under age of 10 = 42.2%
	Between 10 and 20 years old = 31.5%
	Over age of 20 = 26.3%
Ethnic group	Indigenous Triquis from Oaxaca = 31.0%
SES status (self-reported)	Lower class = 61.1%
	Middle class = 31.2%
	Upper class = 7.7%