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Table 3 Socio-demographic characteristics from the CENTURY Study of children included in the Linked CENTURY Study and those who were not linked

From: The Linked CENTURY Study: linking three decades of clinical and public health data to examine disparities in childhood obesity

 

Linked CENTURY Study

Not linked

 

(N = 200343)

(N = 69616)

Characteristics

%

%

Child’s year of birth (decade)

  

 1970s

8.6

19.8

 1980s

23.9

34.0

 1990s

40.0

33.2

 2000s

27.6

13.0

Child’s sex

  

 Male

50.3

51.0

 Female

49.7

49.1

Child’s race/ethnicity

  

 White

49.1

33.3

 Black

7.7

12.1

 Hispanic

2.7

5.3

 Asian

2.7

3.8

 Other

3.5

5.8

 Missing

34.3

39.8

Medical insurancea

  

 Private

29.5

20.6

 Medicaid

6.8

6.5

 Missing

63.7

72.9

  1. aType of medical insurance at most recent visit recorded in clinical database
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