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Smoking and obesity rates in Southend, each borough in Essex, each borough in Kent and the Metropolitan Police area of London are not available. However, estimated prevalence of obesity and smoking among adults aged 16 and over, along with associated confidence intervals are provided for the wards in Southend on Sea local authority, Kent, Essex, Inner London and Outer London. These estimates are taken from the Synthetic Estimates of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours. Estimates are for the combined years 2000-02 and are shown in tables 3 and 4. These estimates are not available by age group or gender. Synthetic estimates are also published on the Neighbourhood Statistics website, available at:


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Table 1:Prevalence of obesity among adults, by age and gender, 2005( 1) —England
Percentage
All ages 16-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75+

Men

22.1

7.6

16.6

27.4

28.3

28.5

27.6

16.9

Women

24.3

12.4

18.9

25.3

28.1

28.1

33.9

25.8

Bases (unweighted)

Men

2,930

367

463

505

531

501

355

208

Women

3,409

385

531

668

614

588

364

259

Bases (weighted)

Men

3,144

491

552

620

521

462

311

187

Women

3,184

432

524

628

517

489

322

272

(1) Data are weighted for non-response
Source:
Health Survey for England 2005—updating of trend tables to include 2005 data. The Information Centre

Table 2: prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults( 1) , by age and gender, 2005( 2) —England
Percentage
All ages 16-19 20-24 25-34 35-49 50-59 60 and over

Men

25

23

34

33

29

25

14

Women

22

27

29

29

25

23

13

Bases (unweighted)

Men

8,663

449

502

1,367

2,341

7,509

2,495

Women

9,950

447

650

1,590

2,777

1,618

2,868

Bases (weighted 000s)

Men

16,834

993

1,186

2,843

4,559

2,859

4,394

Women

19,102

947

1,421

3,105

5,311

3,038

5,281

(1) Aged 16 and over.
(2) 2005 data includes last quarter of 2004-05 data due to survey change from financial year to calendar year.
Source:
General Household Survey 2005. Office for National Statistics

Obesity: Children

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of children who were classified as (a) overweight and (b) obese in (i) Southend, (ii) each borough in Essex, (iii) each borough in Kent, (iv) the Metropolitan Police area of London and (v) England in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by age group. [161092]

Dawn Primarolo: The information is not available in the exact format requested. Information on the percentage of overweight and obese children is available from the “Health Survey for England” (HSE).

Table 1 shows overweight and obesity prevalence among children aged two to 10, 11 to 15 and two to 15, in England for the years 2000 to 2005.

Table 2 shows obesity and overweight (including obesity) prevalence among children by age group, for England, for the years 2002 to 2004 combined. Three years of data are combine due to small sample sizes.

Table 3 shows overweight and obesity prevalence among children aged two to 10, 11 to 15 and two to 15, by Government office region for the years 2002 to 2004 combined. Three years of data are combined due to small sample sizes.

Information for Southend, boroughs in Essex and Kent and the Metropolitan police area of London is not available.


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Table 1 : Overweight and obesity prevalence among children, by gender, 2000 to 2005—England
Percentage
Unweighted( 1) Weighted
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2003 2004 2005

Boys

2-10

Overweight

13.6

15.6

13.3

14.7

14.2

16.5

14.6

14.6

16.1

Obese

12.2

13.5

15.2

14.9

16.2

16.6

15.1

15.9

16.9

11-15

Overweight

10.0

14.1

14.4

14.4

12.8

14.8

14.5

12.8

15.0

Obese

18.8

18.8

19.8

20.4

23.7

20.5

20.0

24.2

20.4

2-15

Overweight

12.4

15.0

13.7

14.6

13.7

15.9

14.6

13.9

15.7

Obese

14.5

15.5

16.9

17.0

18.9

18.0

17.0

19.2

18.3

Girls

2-10

Overweight

11.6

14.0

13.1

13.4

14.2

12.2

13.4

14.8

12.2

Obese

11.8

12.7

15.8

12.5

11.9

16.7

12.4

12.8

16.8

11-15

Overweight

14.4

17.5

15.1

16.0

19.4

14.0

16.4

19.3

14.1

Obese

18.1

17.7

19.2

21.9

26.2

20.6

22.1

26.7

20.8

2-15

Overweight

12.7

15.2

13.9

14.4

16.3

12.8

14.6

16.6

12.9

Obese

14.2

14.5

17.1

16.1

17.8

18.1

16.1

18.5

18.3

Bases (weighted)

Boys

2-10

570

1,035

2,364

876

416

695

878

379

664

11-15

306

618

1,381

533

230

382

574

245

438

2-15

877

1,653

3,745

1,410

645

1,077

1,452

624

1,102

Girls

2-10

523

1,094

2,290

897

343

724

858

346

674

11-15

318

605

1,346

547

236

411

535

235

417

2-15

841

1,699

3,636

1,444

579

1,135

1,393

581

1,091

(1 )From 2003 data were also weighted for non response. Data weighted for child selection only are provided for consistency with previous years.
Source:
Health Survey for England: Updating of trend tables to include 2005 data. The Information Centre.

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