Table 1.
Distribution of Selected Participant Characteristics Overall and by Sex—BRFSS, 2011
| Total | Men | Women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | na | %b (SE) | na | %b (SE) | na | %b (SE) |
| Age group (yr) | ||||||
| 18–29 | 38,336 | 20.8 (0.2) | 18,405 | 22.5 (0.2) | 19,931 | 19.2 (0.2) |
| 30–44 | 81,170 | 26.6 (0.1) | 33,978 | 27.2 (0.2) | 47,192 | 26.0 (0.2) |
| 45–54 | 82,315 | 19.2 (0.1) | 34,103 | 19.3 (0.2) | 48,212 | 19.1 (0.2) |
| 55–64 | 102,143 | 15.7 (0.1) | 42,071 | 15.6 (0.1) | 60,072 | 15.7 (0.1) |
| 65–74 | 77,867 | 9.7 (0.1) | 30,769 | 9.1 (0.1) | 47,098 | 10.2 (0.1) |
| ≥ 75 | 64,385 | 8.1 (0.1) | 21,466 | 6.3 (0.1) | 42,919 | 9.8 (0.1) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 351,588 | 67.3 (0.2) | 143,980 | 66.2 (0.2) | 207,608 | 68.3 (0.2) |
| Black, Non-Hispanic | 35,223 | 11.0 (0.1) | 11,660 | 10.6 (0.2) | 23,563 | 11.4 (0.1) |
| Hispanic | 32,916 | 14.6 (0.1) | 13,414 | 15.6 (0.2) | 19,502 | 13.7 (0.2) |
| Otherc | 26,489 | 7.1 (0.1) | 11,738 | 7.7 (0.1) | 14,751 | 6.6 (0.1) |
| Education level | ||||||
| < High school graduate | 38,621 | 14.6 (0.1) | 15,585 | 15.2 (0.2) | 23,036 | 13.9 (0.2) |
| High school graduate | 130,522 | 29.0 (0.1) | 52,075 | 29.9 (0.2) | 78,447 | 28.0 (0.2) |
| Some college | 121,092 | 30.4 (0.1) | 45,735 | 28.8 (0.2) | 75,357 | 31.9 (0.2) |
| College graduate | 155,981 | 26.1 (0.1) | 67,397 | 26.0 (0.2) | 88,584 | 26.2 (0.2) |
| BMI categoryd | ||||||
| Under- or normal-weight | 159,630 | 36.7 (0.2) | 49,895 | 30.2 (0.2) | 109,735 | 43.4 (0.2) |
| Overweight | 161,783 | 35.8 (0.2) | 79,398 | 42.0 (0.2) | 82,385 | 29.5 (0.2) |
| Obese | 124,803 | 27.5 (0.1) | 51,499 | 27.8 (0.2) | 73,304 | 27.2 (0.2) |
Note. Of the 506,467 participants who responded to the 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, 60,251 participants were excluded because of missing physical activity data (n = 31,960) or missing demographic data (n = 28,291). The final analytic sample included data from 446,216 participants (50.1% men and 49.9% women).
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; BRFSS, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; SE, standard error.
Unweighted sample size.
All estimates and standard estimates are weighted according to BRFSS sampling methodology; some percentages do not total to 100.0% due to rounding errors.
Other race/ethnicity includes the following: Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaska Native, multiracial, and other, specified.
Under- or normal-weight, overweight, and obese categories are based on BMI [weight (kg) / height (m2)]: under- or normal-weight = < 25.0; overweight = 25.0–29.9; and obese = ≥ 30.0.