Table 2. Characteristics of youth, 10–17 years of age, participating in minimum physical activity, 2007 National Survey of Children's Health (N = 45,392a).
| Characteristics | Participated in physical activity 5 or more days/week for at least 20 min at a time (n = 23,015a) | ||
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| Weighted % 49.4 | 95 % confidence interval 48.2, 50.6 | Cochran Mantel–Haenszel χ2 P value | |
| Rural–urban commuting area (RUCA) (community type) | |||
| Urban core (n = 27,642) | 48.6 | b | 0.0004 |
| Other urban (n = 4,846) | 50.2 | ||
| Large rural core (n = 4,460) | 48.3 | ||
| Other large rural (n = 1,439) | 55.3 | ||
| Small rural core (n = 2,689) | 50.7 | ||
| Other small rural (n = 716) | 57.7 | ||
| Isolated rural (n = 3,594) | 57.1 | ||
| Youth demographics | |||
| Age (years) | |||
| 10–14 | 53.1 | 51.6, 54.7 | <0.0001 |
| 15–17 | 43.1 | 41.3, 44.9 | |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 55.9 | 54.3, 57.6 | <0.0001 |
| Female | 42.8 | 41.1, 44.5 | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| Hispanic | 38.2 | 34.5, 42.0 | <0.0001 |
| White, non-Hispanic | 52.9 | 51.5, 54.2 | |
| African American, non-Hispanic | 49.8 | 46.9, 52.8 | |
| Multi-racial, non-Hispanic | 57.8 | 52.6, 62.9 | |
| Other, non-Hispanic | 45.8 | 38.9, 52.9 | |
| Youth health and activities | |||
| Body mass index (BMI) | 53.3 | 47.9, 58.6 | <0.0001 |
| Underweight (<5th percentile) | 52.4 | 50.8, 53.9 | |
| Healthy weight (5th–84th percentile) | 46.2 | 43.2, 49.3 | |
| Overweight (85th–94th percentile) | 43.7 | 40.6, 46.9 | |
| Obese (95th percentile or above) | |||
| Child with special health care need | |||
| No | 50.5 | 49.2, 51.9 | 0.0004 |
| Yes | 45.6 | 43.3, 48.0 | |
| Amount of screen time | |||
| Less than 2 h/day | 56.7 | 54.8, 58.5 | <0.0001 |
| 2 h or more/day | 44.5 | 43.0, 46.1 | |
| Family and household characteristics | |||
| Parental education | |||
| No parent has more than a high school education | 43.5 | 41.1, 45.8 | <0.0001 |
| At least one parent has more than a high school education | 52.6 | 51.2, 54.0 | |
| Federal poverty level of family (derived) | |||
| 0–99 FPL | 40.6 | 37.7, 43.6 | <0.0001 |
| 100–199 FPL | 46.7 | 43.9, 49.6 | |
| 200–399 FPL | 50.3 | 48.1, 52.4 | |
| ≥400 FPL | 54.9 | 53.0, 56.7 | |
| Parental physical activity level | |||
| No parent exercises 5 or more days/week | 43.6 | 42.1, 45.2 | <0.0001 |
| At least 1 parent exercises 5 or more days/week | 58.6 | 56.6, 60.5 | |
a
Unweighted
b
The calculation of 95 % CI is not an allowed function in ANDRE within SUDAAN's proc crosstab