Association of Obesity and Socioeconomic Status among Women of Childbearing Age Living in Urban Area of Morocco

Table 4

Association between anthropometric measures and socioeconomic status in studied women.

Variables		Weight	Height	BMI	WC	HC	WHR
		()	()	()	()	()	()
Age strata	R	0.39	−0.07	0.43	0.46	0.33	0.25
	value	0.000	0.248	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Culture	R	−0.02	0.00	−0.01	−0.05	0.01	−0.09
	value	0.815	0.946	0.912	0.478	0.906	0.162
Level of education	R	−0.17	0.14	−0.23	−0.29	−0.19	−0.17
	value	0.010	0.029	0.000	0.000	0.003	0.008
Marital status	R	0.38	−0.03	0.41	0.43	0.36	0.15
	value	0.000	0.623	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.023
Occupation of women	R	−0.09	0.02	−0.10	−0.07	−0.08	−0.03
	value	0.165	0.796	0.132	0.290	0.211	0.615
Occupation of the household head	R	−0.01	0.08	−0.04	−0.05	−0.04	−0.02
	value	0.901	0.223	0.587	0.396	0.537	0.806
Number of children	R	0.43	−0.06	0.47	0.50	0.42	0.19
	value	0.000	0.337	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.003
Household size	R	−0.11	−0.16	−0.06	0.03	−0.14	0.21
	value	0.086	0.015	0.391	0.686	0.034	0.001
Housing type	R	0.02	−0.05	0.04	−0.02	−0.02	−0.02
	value	0.734	0.437	0.572	0.764	0.803	0.723
Monthly expenses	R	−0.03	0.10	−0.07	−0.02	0.03	−0.08
	value	0.608	0.130	0.285	0.804	0.659	0.206
Monthly expenses for food	R	−0.09	0.08	−0.12	−0.08	−0.03	−0.10
	value	0.186	0.199	0.067	0.243	0.679	0.125

BMI: body mass index; WC: waist circumference; HC: hip circumference; WHR: waist-to-hip ratio; r: correlation coefficient. The correlation is significant at the level of 0.05 (bilateral).