Association of blood lipids, creatinine, albumin, and CRP with socioeconomic status in Malawi

Table 1 Summary statistics for the study population

	Females	Males	Total
	mean	mean	mean
	(sd)	(sd)	(sd)
# of observations	571	335	906
Age (in 2008)	42.17	43.54	42.68
	(17.75)	(16.87)	(17.43)
Married (in 2008)	0.76	0.89	0.81
Muslim	0.69	0.71	0.70
2008 level of education
No school	0.57	0.32	0.48
Primary level	0.40	0.62	0.48
Secondary level	0.03	0.06	0.04
Body mass index (BMI) (2008)
Underweight ( BMI<f.5)	0.14	0.12	0.14
Normal (18.5≤BMI<25)	0.75	0.83	0.78
Overweight ( 25≤BMI<f)	0.09	0.04	0.07
Obese ( BMI≥30)	0.02	0.01	0.01
Subjective health
Fair/Poor	0.16	0.10	0.14
Good	0.31	0.19	0.26
Very good	0.28	0.30	0.29
Excellent	0.26	0.41	0.31
Relative health to others in village
Worse	0.07	0.05	0.06
Same	0.31	0.28	0.30
Better	0.50	0.41	0.47
Much better	0.12	0.26	0.17
Number of recent econ shocks	2.00	1.88	1.95
	(0.91)	(0.95)	(0.92)

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