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Table 2 Yearly intangible costs of BMI, overweight, and obesity: SOEP 2018

From: The intangible costs of overweight and obesity in Germany

 

OLS

(1)

Ordered logit

(2)

Panel A: 18.5 ≤ BMI ≤ 60

 Cost of overweight

13,853**

17,868**

 95% CI

[1988; 25,717]

[5823; 29,913]

 Cost of obesity

42,450***

45,502***

 95% CI

[21,281; 63,618]

[24,430; 64,575]

 Observations

11,407

11,407

Panel B: 25 ≤ BMI ≤ 60

 Cost of BMI

2553***

2562***

 95% CI

[902; 4204]

[989; 4134]

 Cost of obesity

23,261***

24,294***

 95% CI

[8458; 38,065]

[9388; 39,201]

 Observations

6347

6347

  1. BMI body mass index, defined as height (in m) divided by weight (in kg) squared. Costs are in euros. The overweight, BMI, and obesity costs in Panels A and B are calculated based on Eqs. 9, 10 and 11 respectively. The 95% confidence intervals, given in brackets, are calculated using Fieller’s theorem
  2. Significance levels are shown as *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1
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