TABLE 2. Percentage of skipping breakfast every day among high school students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2023*.

Characteristic	Skipping breakfast (Ate breakfast on 0 of the past 7 days) % (95% CI)
Sex†
Female	19.7 (18.1%–21.5%)
Male	16.2 (14.4%–18.1%)
Race and ethnicity†,§
American Indian or Alaska Native	11.1 (5.7–20.5)
Asian	15.8 (12.3–20.1)
Black or African American	18.4 (15.7–21.4)
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	24.0 (14.2–37.7)
White	16.2 (14.7–17.9)
Hispanic or Latino	20.0 (17.4–22.9)
Multiracial	17.9 (14.6–21.7)
Grade†
9–10	17.7 (15.9–19.7)
11–12	17.9 (16.5–19.3)
Sexual identity†,¶
Heterosexual	15.8 (14.3–17.5)
Gay or Lesbian	23.3 (18.3–29.2)
Bisexual	25.0 (21.2–29.2)
Identify in some other way	19.1 (15.1–23.7)
Questioning	20.7 (16.3–25.9)
Total	17.9 (16.5–19.4)

* N = 20,103 respondents. The total number of students answering each question varied. Data might be missing because 1) the question did not appear in that student’s questionnaire, 2) the student did not answer the question, or 3) the response was set to missing because of an out-of-range response or logical inconsistency. Percentages in each category are calculated on the known data.

^† Significant difference at p<0.05 calculated using t-tests with Taylor series linearization:

Prevalence of skipping breakfast (unadjusted): male <female; American Indian or Alaska Native, White <Hispanic or Latino; heterosexual <gay or lesbian, bisexual, questioning; describe another way <bisexual.

^§ Persons of Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) origin might be of any race but are categorized as Hispanic; all racial groups are non-Hispanic.

^¶ Students self-identified their sexual identity with the following response options: heterosexual, gay or lesbian, bisexual, I describe my identity some other way, I am not sure about my sexual identity (questioning), I am not sure what this question is asking (missing).