Percent of children who are classed as healthy weight, overweight, obese or severely obese at their Primary 1 review.
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| Reference Period | |
| Weight Category | |
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Reference Area
(showing types of area available in these data) |
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Primary 1 Body Mass Index (BMI) statistics capture important information of the growth of young children.
Epidemiological thresholds are used to define children at risk of under- or overweight and are used primarily to assess the health of the whole child population and monitor the changes in the proportion of children at risk of unhealthy weight that have been seen in Scotland over recent years.
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Data are compared to previous year’s figures and to expected trends.
Tables and charts are accessible via the ISD website - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Child-Health/Child-Weight-and-Growth/
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These statistics are updated annually.
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This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
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Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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2007/2008
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/government-year/2007-2008
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Gender
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/gender
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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(not locked to a value) |
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Weight Category
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/weightCategory
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(not locked to a value) |
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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(not locked to a value) |