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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 21.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Feb 25;167(7):875–881. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwm390

TABLE 1.

Sample size for a study of the amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors, by gender, age, and racial/ethnic group, United States, 2003–2004

Gender and age
group (years)
Total* Non-
Hispanic
Whites
Non-
Hispanic
Blacks
Mexican
Americans
Males
 All 3,120 1,334 828 782
 6–11 386 104 138 118
 12–15 466 121 180 146
 16–19 429 113 162 137
 20–29 300 138 69 60
 30–39 282 131 61 62
 40–49 309 154 72 72
 50–59 238 137 50 35
 60–69 299 157 51 79
 70–85 411 279 45 73
Females
 All 3,209 1,413 812 796
 6–11 425 117 149 138
 12–15 420 105 145 151
 16–19 405 126 142 113
 20–29 336 169 64 73
 30–39 322 174 59 69
 40–49 319 144 90 64
 50–59 255 150 53 34
 60–69 333 159 70 87
 70–85 394 269 40 67
*

The total sample included persons of all racial/ethnic groups in the study; therefore, numbers for the individual racial/ethnic groups in the table do not add up to those of the total sample.