Table 1.
Means (standard deviations) and percentages of variables by race/ethnicity, adults aged 18 to 84, NHIS 1989–2011.
| Non-Hispanic
|
Hispanic Origin
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Asian
|
Mexican | Puerto Rican | Cuban | |||
| Chinese | Filipino | Indian | ||||||
| BMI (kg/m2), mean | 26.0 (5.2) | 27.9 (6.2) | 22.8 (3.8) | 24.8 (4.2) | 24.1 (3.8) | 27.3 (5.4) | 27.1 (5.7) | 26.4 (4.9) |
| Overweight (kg/m2 ≥ 25), % | 52.3 | 65.5 | 23.4 | 42.0 | 37.3 | 64.3 | 61.2 | 58.0 |
| Obese (kg/m2 ≥ 30), % | 18.2 | 30.0 | 3.1 | 10.1 | 6.6 | 25.7 | 25.3 | 19.1 |
| Nativity, % | ||||||||
| U.S. born | 95.5 | 92.6 | 18.1 | 22.7 | 6.6 | 47.2 | 45.5 | 22.3 |
| Foreign born, <15 years in U.S. | 1.3 | 3.6 | 47.0 | 36.2 | 62.3 | 27.3 | 14.7 | 22.0 |
| Foreign born, 15+ years in U.S. | 3.0 | 3.5 | 34.6 | 40.7 | 31.0 | 24.9 | 39.1 | 55.4 |
| Calendar year, mean | 1996.4 (6.3) | 1997.4 (6.8) | 2000.5 (6.7) | 2000.9 (6.7) | 2002.1 (6.5) | 1999.0 (6.4) | 1998.6 (6.6) | 1998.3 (6.3) |
| Age, mean | 46.3 (17.3) | 43.4 (16.7) | 42.0 (1.6) | 43.9 (1.6) | 37.5 (1.3) | 38.1 (14.9) | 40.6 (15.7) | 48.6 (17.9) |
| Cohort, % | ||||||||
| ≤1909 | 0.6 | 0.4 | -- | -- | -- | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| 1910–1914 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | -- | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.3 |
| 1915–1919 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 2.8 |
| 1920–1924 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 5.0 |
| 1925–1929 | 5.7 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 7.2 |
| 1930–1934 | 5.8 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 7.9 |
| 1935–1939 | 6.2 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 8.2 |
| 1940–1944 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 4.9 | 7.0 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 6.3 | 7.6 |
| 1945–1949 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 7.5 | 9.7 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 7.8 | 7.1 |
| 1950–1954 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| 1955–1959 | 11.1 | 11.3 | 10.1 | 11.6 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 10.4 | 8.7 |
| 1960–1964 | 10.7 | 11.5 | 12.9 | 10.8 | 11.3 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 |
| 1965–1969 | 8.9 | 10.6 | 11.9 | 10.7 | 13.2 | 14.0 | 13.1 | 9.2 |
| 1970–1974 | 7.2 | 9.6 | 11.7 | 9.9 | 14.4 | 14.3 | 11.8 | 7.8 |
| 1975–1979 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 13.0 | 9.6 | 7.5 | 4.0 |
| 1980–1984 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 9.7 | 5.7 | 4.0 | 2.5 |
| 1985–1989 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 |
| 1990–1994 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Female (=1), % | 53.4 | 60.0 | 52.4 | 58.4 | 44.8 | 52.8 | 59.5 | 53.9 |
| Family income, $, mean | 35,407 (26,951) | 24,412 (23,109) | 42,214 (35,327) | 43,650 (31,059) | 48,567 (36,349) | 22,779 (20,497) | 25,279 (23,473) | 30,285 (25,550) |
| Education, mean | 13.2 (2.7) | 12.2 (2.9) | 14.2 (3.8) | 14.2 (2.8) | 15.3 (3.1) | 10.0 (4.0) | 11.5 (3.5) | 12.0 (3.8) |
| Employment status, % | ||||||||
| Employed | 65.0 | 59.1 | 64.5 | 71.7 | 69.7 | 63.5 | 54.9 | 58.7 |
| Unemployed | 2.6 | 5.7 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.7 |
| Not in the labor force | 32.4 | 35.3 | 32.4 | 25.0 | 26.5 | 31.8 | 40.4 | 37.7 |
| N (unweighted) | 724,740 | 142,887 | 6,164 | 5,525 | 4,320 | 82,834 | 14,830 | 7,973 |