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Percentage of adults (aged 18+) classified as obese (17866) Metric type
- Help text
- Percentage of adults aged 18 and over classified as obese.
Questions on self-reported height and weight are included in Active Lives to provide data for monitoring excess weight in adults at local authority level for the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF).
It is known that adults tend to underestimate their weight and overestimate their height when providing self-reported measurements and the extent to which this occurs can differ between population groups. Therefore prevalence of excess weight (overweight including obese) calculated from self-reported data is likely to produce lower estimates than prevalence calculated from measured data. Differences between self-reported and measured height and weight vary in a systematic way, primarily as a function of age and sex. This systematic variation can be described by formulas which may be used to adjust self-reported height and weight measurements at an individual level to give likely actual height and weight.
Active Lives self-reported height and weight have been adjusted at individual level using formulas estimated with Health Survey for England (HSE) data from 2012 to 2014. HSE collects data on both self-report and measured height and weight from the same individuals and this allows adjustment formulas to be estimated. The prevalences are weighted to be representative of the whole population at each level of geography. They have also been age-standardised to improve comparability of excess weight prevalence between Local Authorities.
- Modified
- 14 Jul 2022
- Data last updated
- 14 Jul 2022
- Short label
- % of adults (aged 18+) classified as obese
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- % of adults (aged 18+)
- Dataset
- Obese Adults
- Collection
- Obesity Profile
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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