Table 1.
Sample Statistics on Youth | |||||
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Variables | Mean or Percentage | Variables | Mean or Percentage | ||
Leisure-time physical activity | Hypertension | 22.7 | |||
never | 8.9 | Diabetes | 4.9 | ||
less than once a week | 9.8 | Fair/poor self-rated health | 15.3 | ||
once or twice a week | 24.3 | TV/Game time per day | |||
Once every other day | 21.6 | ≤ 1st quartile (45 min) | 21.1 | ||
every day | 35.4 | > 1st quartile & ≤ median (60 min) | 5.2 | ||
Age at survey (years) | 10.5 | > median & ≤ 3rd quartile (120 min) | 33.4 | ||
Male gender | 43.5 | > 3rd quartile (120 min) | 40.3 | ||
Obesity | 90.9 | ||||
Sample Statistics on Parents | |||||
Education (years) | Obesity | 62.3 | |||
<=12 | 82.8 | Diabetes | |||
>12 & <=16 | 10.1 | neither parents diabetic | 68.0 | ||
>16 | 7.1 | one parent diabetic | 27.8 | ||
Employment status | both parents diabetic | 4.3 | |||
work full time | 33.6 | Extended family member diabetic | 70.8 | ||
work part time | 19.3 | Fair/poor self-rated health | 29.7 | ||
unemployed or other | 47.1 | Physical exercise time per day (minutes) | |||
Per capital family annual income ($) | 4576.4 | < 30 | 26.3 | ||
≥ 30 | 61.0 | ||||
missing | 12.7 | ||||
Housework time per day (minutes) | 149.5 |
Source: The 2011–2012 TRAT2DC and The 2012 SFBAAN conducted in Lower Rio Grande Valley