bodyweight

Calculates the prevalence of underweight, normalweight, overweight (excluding obesity) and obesity. For more detailed body mass classifications see functions population or anthropometrics.

Usage

bodyweight(
  gdx,
  level = "reg",
  age = FALSE,
  sex = FALSE,
  share = FALSE,
  population = NULL
)

Arguments

gdx

GDX file

level

Level of regional aggregation; "iso" ISO country codes, "reg" (regional), "glo" (global)

age

if TRUE, demand is scaled down to age-groups and sex using food requirements

sex

if FALSE, female and male are aggregated, if sex, results are divided into males and females

share

if TRUE, data is provided by BMI group

population

population information from GDX. Can be provided to speed up calculation process. Will be read from GDX, if not provided.

Value

MAgPIE object with mio people or share of people in each weight category

Details

Demand definitions are equivalent to FAO Food supply categories

Author

Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

Examples

  if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
    x <- bodyweight(gdx)
  } # }