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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants (n = 350)

From: Prevalence of physical inactivity and barriers to physical activity among obese attendants at a community health-care center in Karachi, Pakistan

Continuous Variables

Mean

S.D

Age

40.73

11.03

BMI

30.58

4.09

Income

Mean: 18872

18601.61

 

Mode: 10000*

 
 

Median:13000*

 

Categorical variables

Frequency

Percentage

Gender

  

Male

163

46.6

Female

187

53.4

Ethnicity

  

Urdu

135

38.6

Other ‡

215

61.4

Marital status

  

Single

40

11.4

Married

302

86.3

Widowed

8

2.3

Level of Education

  

Uneducated

47

13.4

Below Matric

77

22.0

Matric & Above

226

64.6

Family structure

  

Nuclear †

158

45.1

Extended

192

54.9

Family history of obesity

  

Yes

222

63.4

No

128

36.6

  1. * Mode & Median reported as the data was skewed. The unit of income is Rupees.
  2. ‡ As people all over the country are coming to Karachi for better perspectives and opportunity many ethnic groups were found in the study which was merged together.
  3. †Nuclear family system was defined as a household consisting of parents and their children; extended family system was defined as a household where multiple generations of a family were living together.