Table 1.

Unweighted Sample Sizes for US Youth Aged 2 to 19 Years With BMI Data by Sex, Age Group, Education of Household Head, and Race and Hispanic Origin in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013–2016`.

	Race and Hispanic Origin, No. of Participants
		Non-Hispanic
	All Groupsa	White	Black	Asian	Hispanic
All	6863	1844	1669	612	2269
Age, y
2–5	1657	468	414	129	510
6–11	2562	687	627	200	866
12–19	2644	689	628	283	893
Sex
Male
Age, y
2–19 (Overall)	3490	981	857	326	1094
2–5	846	242	205	77	250
6–11	1292	367	320	108	413
12–19	1352	372	332	141	431
Female
Age, y
2–19 (Overall)	3373	863	812	286	1175
2–5	811	226	209	52	260
6–11	1270	320	307	92	453
12–19	1292	317	296	142	462
Education of household headb
≤High school diploma	3108	592	730	180	1450
Some college	2065	649	648	105	506
College graduate	1461	557	256	282	224

Abbreviation: BMI, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared).

^aIncludes race and Hispanic origin groups not shown separately.

^bSample sizes for education categories do not sum to 6863 due to missing values.