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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Med. 2014 May;56(5):516–528. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000133

TABLE 4.

Age-Adjusted Prevalence of Obesity Among Hispanic Adults by 23 Major and Selected Minor Occupational Groups

Occupational Group Hispanic Male Workers
Hispanic Female Workers
Sample Size
2004–11		 Prevalence*
2004–11		 Prevalence*
2004–07		 Prevalence*
2008–11		 Prevalence*
Difference† 		Sample Size
2004–11		 Prevalence*
2004–11		 Prevalence*
2004–07		 Prevalence*
2008–11		 Prevalence*
Difference†
All non-Hispanic Male 12,771 28.6 25.8 30.4 4.6‡ 10,491 29.1 26.6 30.2 3.6‡
  1. Management 607 29.9 31.6 28.5 −3.1 484 25.9 21.4 29.5 8.1
  2. Business and financial operations 207 31.3 29.7 31.6 1.9 333 28.6 22.4 32.9 10.5‡
  3. Computer and Mathematics 184 37.3 36.9 40.5 3.6 67 29.1 7.3§ 4.8§ ‖
  4. Architecture and Engineering 174 34.6 22.9 44.4 21.5‡ 38 24.9§ ‖
  5. Life, physical, and social science 50 38.7 – – ‖ 55 23.9 3.4§ 0.0§ ‖
  6. Community and social services 91 40.5 34.8§ 46.3 ‖ 183 34.8 28.2 39.1 10.9
  7. Legal 26 30.6§ ‖ 77 26.3 10.5§ 16.5§ ‖
  8. Education, training, and library 172 31.6 28.3 34.6 6.3 661 28.8 25.2 31.7 6.5
  9. Arts, design, entertainment, sports and media 140 27.1 23.9 27.4 3.5 131 18.6 15.4 21.1 5.7
10. Health care practitioners and technicians 135 34.5 39.2 30.5 −8.7 369 30.4 29.9 31.7 1.8
 Health diagnosing and treating practitioners 80 27.3 16.3§ 37.6§ ‖ 209 29.5 27.5 31.8 4.3
 Health technologists and technicians 53 43.1 62.8§ 19.9§ ‖ 159 33.4 32.0 33.7 1.7
11. Health care support 77 24.7 13.5§ 33.1§ ‖ 549 33.2 33.6 32.8 −0.8
 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides 46 27.0§ ‖ 342 32.4 35.8 29.4 −6.4
12. Protective service 309 43.2 38.0 47.0 9.0 89 25.3 29.1§ 0.0§ ‖
 Firefighting and prevention workers 26 25.1§ ‖ 1 0.0§ ‖
 Law enforcement workers 131 39.9 30.3 45.7 15.4 35 18.3§ ‖
 Others protective service 133 54.3 58.5 50.7 −7.8 48 25.5§ ‖
13. Food preparation and serving related 996 21.9 21.9 21.6 −0.3 869 31.1 32.3 29.7 −2.6
 Supervisors 101 24.4 26.4 24.1§ ‖ 85 39.6 34.5§ 39.0§ ‖
 Cooks and food preparation workers 534 26.1 24.9 26.0 1.1 399 34.2 39.1 27.8 −11.3
 Food and beverage serving working 194 14.2 15.5§ 13.2§ ‖ 296 20.9 14.9 26.6 11.7‡
14. Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance 1,081 23.2 22.1 24.1 2.0 1,165 25.5 25.3 25.6 0.3
 Supervisors 56 38.7 40.5§ 38.5§ ‖ 34 31.7§ ‖
 Building cleaning and pest control workers 494 24.3 23.7 25.3 1.6 1,115 25.4 25.0 25.7 0.7
 Grounds maintenance workers 531 20.6 18.8 22.1 3.3 16 13.9§ ‖
15. Personal care and service 138 32.2 28.3 35.3 7.0 712 31.5 32.0 30.6 −1.4
16. Sales and related 822 31.2 26.9 36.1 9.2‡ 1,149 26.1 21.6 29.9 8.3‡
 Supervisors 232 36.3 32.6 38.3 5.7 195 23.8 16.0 30.2 14.2
 Retail sales workers 351 29.4 23.5 35.2 11.7 709 28.2 23.4 31.8 8.4‡
17. Office and administrative support 813 30.3 29.3 30.8 1.5 1,904 30.9 29.6 32.1 2.5
18. Farming, fishing, and forestry 357 21.7 22.0 21.2 −0.8 133 31.3 32.5 28.3 −4.2
 Agricultural workers 324 20.9 20.2 22.2 2.0 129 31.3 32.1 29.1 −3.0
19. Construction and extraction 2,445 25.9 22.7 29.5 6.8‡ 35 5.2§ 4.9§ 4.6§ ‖
 Supervisors 136 42.1 37.1 45.1 8.0 5 0.0§ ‖
 Construction trades workers 2,182 23.7 20.9 26.8 5.9‡ 26 7.5§ ‖
20. Installation, maintenance, and repair 826 30.9 29.4 32.3 2.9 39 21.8§ ‖
21. Production 1,341 26.0 22.5 30.5 8.0‡ 862 25.5 22.3 29.4 7.1
22. Transportation and material moving 1,391 32.3 30.2 34.2 4.0 310 36.4 32.2 40.4 8.2
 Motor vehicle operators 641 38.3 36.8 39.6 2.8 70 52.4 36.6§ 63.4§ ‖
 Material moving workers 672 27.4 25.2 29.2 4.0 222 33.8 32.4 35.4 3.0
23. Military specific 11 7.6§ ‖ 2 0.0§ ‖
*

The unit of prevalence of obesity is percent (%).

†

Prevalence difference between 2008–2011 and 2004–2007.

‡

Statistically significant difference (P <0.05) between prevalence in 2008–2011 and prevalence in 2004–2007.

§

The obesity estimate is unreliable because the relative standard error of the estimate is larger than 30% or the sample size is less than 50.15

‖

(Percent change is not calculated because the prevalence in either 2004–2007 or 2008–2011 is unreliable or no data exist.

Rate of prevalence of obesity for 2004–2007 (or 2008–2011) is not estimated because the rate for 2004–2011 is unreliable.