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Using six waves of the National Survey of Children\u2019s Health (NSCH; 2016\u20132023;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 153,656) and two National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) releases bracketing the pandemic (2017 to March 2020 and August 2021 to August 2023;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 4914), we estimated weighted obesity prevalence (BMI-for-age at or above the 95th percentile) among children aged 6\u201317. Parent-reported prevalence was 17.0% both before and after the pandemic. Measured prevalence was 21.3% prepandemic and 22.7% postpandemic, a difference whose confidence interval included zero. The measured-minus-reported gap was 4.3 and 5.7 percentage points pre- and postpandemic, respectively, and widened modestly but not significantly. 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