Research Article
Correlates of Overweight in Children and Adolescents Living at Different Altitudes: The Peruvian Health and Optimist Growth Study
Table 1
Geographic, demographic, socioeconomic, and educational characteristics of the three geographical areas located in the central region of Peru.
| | Characteristics | Sea level (Barranco) | Amazon region (La Merced and San Ramon) | High altitude (Junín) |
| | Geographic | | | | | Area (km2) | 3.33 | 5 315.07 | 883.8 | | Population density (people/km2) | 10.132 | 10.08 | 12.22 | | Altitude (m) | 58 | 751 | 4 107 | | Demographic | | | | | Total population | 34.378 | 53.590 | 10.796 | | Official language | Spanish | Spanish/Quechua | Spanish/Quechua | | Ethnic composition | Mestizo/Blanco/Quechua/Afroperuano | Mestizo/Quechua/Blanco Afroperuano/Native Amazonian | Quechua/Mestizo/Blanco | | Climate | Subtropical desert climate | Warm and rainy tropical climate | High mountain and mountain climate | | Average annual temperature | 18°C | 24.6°C | 7°C–12°C | | Hours of sunlight and twilight | 11 h25 min–12 h50 min | 11 h29 min–12 h47 min | 11 h28 min–12 h47 min | | Socioeconomic | | | | | Human Development Index (HDI) | 0.72 | 0.52 | 0.44 | | Life expectancy at birth | 79.08 | 65.49 | 69.14 | | Education (%)1 | 86.94 | 86.61 | 76.56 | | Literacy (%)2 | 99.35 | 90.97 | 89.84 | | Per capita family income | 1440.6 | 785.1 | 512.7 | | Primary production | Trade/tourism | Agriculture/tourism | Stockbreeding/agriculture | | Educational | | | | | School age children | 15.829 | 13.960 | 2.703 | | Public | 8.881 (56.1%) | 11.126 (79.7%) | 2.601 (96.2%) | | Private | 6.948 (43.9%) | 2.834 (20.3) | 102 (3.8%) | | Urban | 15.829 (100%) | 12.927 (92.6%) | 2.678 (99.1%) | | Rural | 0 (0%) | 1.033 (7.4%) | 25 (0.9%) | | Boys | 7.118 (45.0%) | 7.172 (51.4%) | 1.359 (50.3%) | | Girls | 8.711 (55.0%) | 6.788 (48.6%) | 1.344 (49.7%) |
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1School age population. 2Children and adults of 15 years of age or more who know how to read and write.
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