Prevalence of underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obese children by gender

This dataset provides information from the National Child Monitoring Programme (NCMP), about the prevalence of underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obese children in reception and year 6, using the UK National Body Mass Index (BMI) percentiles classification

The Information Centre for health and social care (IC)

Neighbourhood Statistics

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England

Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National

2010/11

2008/09 to 2010/11

Annually

Administrative data

Confidence Intervals apply

This data is collected annually through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), an annual programme which measures the height and weight of children in Reception and Year 6 within state maintained schools. In 2008/09, 90% of eligible children took part. Some independent and special schools also choose to participate, however these records are excluded from analysis for the national NCMP report. The first reliable NCMP information was collected by the NHS Information Centre for the 2006/07 academic year

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