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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2015 Apr;47(4):725–734. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000478

Table 3.

Percentage of participants by number of adherent days wearing the accelerometer, by age group and gender; HCHS/SOL 2008-2011

Age group, years Gender N Number of Adherent Days
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 >=3
18-74 Overall 14,913 4.4 4.3 5.8 8.1 11.5 19.5 46.5 85.5
Men 5,947 4.6 4.3 5.5 7.4 11.3 19.0 48.0 85.6
Women 8,966 4.2 4.4 6.0 8.6 11.6 19.8 45.4 85.4
18-29 Men 1,109 7.8 7.9 7.3 11.5 12.7 17.2 35.4 76.9
Women 1,272 9.3 8.5 9.4 12.4 15.3 16.5 28.6 72.8
30-44 Men 1,484 4.9 4.8 6.6 8.6 12.8 20.0 42.3 83.8
Women 2,181 4.5 5.4 7.6 9.6 12.9 21.2 38.7 82.5
45-64 Men 2,887 3.4 3.1 4.6 5.5 10.3 19.7 53.4 88.8
Women 4,750 3.0 3.1 4.5 7.5 10.4 20.1 51.4 89.4
65-74 Men 465 3.2 1.3 3.4 4.5 9.0 15.5 63.0 92.0
Women 758 2.2 2.4 5.0 5.7 9.5 19.8 55.4 90.4
*

Adherent day was defined as wearing the accelerometer for at least 10 hours/day. Adherence was defined as wearing the accelerometer at least 3 of 6 possible days. Values in this table are not weighted.