* The number of primary school students varied over the years and were specified by the source as follows: 2001 n=1,823, 2005 n=1,673, 2009 n=1,792, 2013 n=1,597, 2017 n=1,588.
The number of secondary school students varied over the years and were specified by the source as follows: 2001 n=5,517, 2005 n=5,422, 2009 n=5,642, 2013 n=5,571, 2017 n=6,175.
The results have been weighted and are representative for 11 to 16 year olds.
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Share of youth feeling overweight in the Netherlands 2001-2017
The statistic displays the results of a survey regarding the share of youth feeling overweight in the Netherlands from 2001 to 2017, by level of education. The survey results suggest that the share of youths in secondary education who feel overweight is consistently higher than the share of those in primary education who do so. In 2017, over ** percent of secondary school students surveyed indicated that they felt overweight, whereas just over ** percent of their primary school counterparts did so.
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