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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Exerc Sci. 2014 Jul 15;27(1):151–159. doi: 10.1123/pes.2014-0022

Table 3.

Daily television viewing and computer use categories (%) in the 2010-2011 subsample, stratified by sex, race/ethnicity and weight status groups (n = 1178)

Sex Race/ethnicity Weight Status (CDC)

Total Male Female Non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic Black Mexican-American Other Obese Overweight Non-overweight
Television
    ≤1 hour/day 36.2 35.0 37.4 38.9 27.8 30.3 39.9 31.0 37.4 37.7
    >1 to ≤2 hours/day 26.3 26.9 25.7 25.9 25.8 29.9 25.2 24.8 25.7 27.0
≥3 hours/day 37.5 38.0 36.9 35.2a 46.3a 39.8 34.9 44.2 36.9 35.3
Computer
    ≤1 hour/day 60.6 60.0 62.3 62.6 48.8 74.3 53.0 58.6 55.6 62.5
>1 to ≤2 hours/day 17.4 19.8 15.2 16.9b,c 22.6b 13.2c 17.9 15.8 24.9 16.1
    ≥3 hours/day 22.0 21.4 22.5 20.5d,e,f 28.6d 12.5e 29.1f 25.8 19.5 21.3
a

Significant likelihood of having higher (≤1 hour/day vs. ≥3 hours/day) television viewing in comparison to the non-Hispanic white reference group (P<0.01)

b

Significant likelihood of having lower/higher (≤1 hour/day vs. >1 to ≤2 hours/day) computer use in comparison to the non-Hispanic white reference group (P<0.01)

c

Significant likelihood of having lower/higher (≤1 hour/day vs. >1 to ≤2 hours/day) computer use in comparison to the non-Hispanic white reference group (P<0.01)

d

Significant likelihood of having lower/higher (≤1 hour/day vs. ≥3 hours/day) computer use in comparison to the non-Hispanic white reference group (P<0.01)

e

Significant likelihood of having lower/higher (≤1 hour/day vs. ≥3 hours/day) computer use in comparison to the non-Hispanic white reference group (P<0.01)

f

Significant likelihood of having lower/higher (≤1 hour/day vs. ≥3 hours/day) computer use in comparison to the non-Hispanic white reference group (P<0.01)