Figure 2.
Mean days absent per year by grade across fitness-change categories in New York City public middle school students (N = 349,381), 2006–2007 through 2012–2013. Change in fitness composite percentile scores based on Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) Push-up and Curl-up Fitnessgram tests from the year prior. Categories are based on tabulated mean estimates.
| Fitness Change | Mean Days Absent Per Year |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | |
| >20% Decrease | 10.6 | 11.6 | 13.9 |
| 10%–20% Decrease | 10.2 | 10.6 | 12.6 |
| <10% Change | 10.0 | 10.1 | 11.9 |
| 10%–20% Increase | 9.7 | 9.7 | 11.5 |
| >20% Increase | 9.6 | 9.8 | 11.9 |