Official Statistics

Child obesity and excess weight: small area level data

Trend data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) showing the prevalence of excess weight and obesity in children at small area level.

Documents

Small area NCMP data: MSOA

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Small area NCMP data: electoral ward

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Small area NCMP data: CCG

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Small area NCMP data: LA and England

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Small area NCMP data: all geographies

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Details

Trend data for the prevalence of:

  • child excess weight (overweight including obesity) for school year 2010 to 2011, up to school year 2017 to 2018
  • child obesity from school year 2008 to 2009, up to school year 2017 to 2018

The spreadsheets present 3 years of aggregated data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for these 4 different geographies separately:

  • middle super output areas (MSOAs) - 2011
  • electoral wards - 2018
  • clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) - 2018
  • local authorities (LAs) and England - 2013

Additional compressed zip file includes a text file with all of the data listed above in one file, accompanied by a metadata document. This file is specifically for those wishing to undertake further analysis of the data.

Published 26 April 2017
Last updated 27 March 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated data on child obesity and child excess weight (overweight including obesity), up to school year 2017 to 2018.

  2. Updated data on child obesity and child excess weight (overweight including obesity), up to school year 2016 to 2017.

  3. Added information to clearly state that the electoral ward data is modelled estimates. No new data has been added.

  4. First published.