TABLE 2.
Demographics from NHANES unweighted raw data (n = 17,132), with 6-y weighting (total sample = 214,755,655), and complete cases (n = 10,574), for participants >20 y of age
| NHANES unweighted | NHANES weighted | Complete cases sample | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | % completing survey | |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| Mexican American | 3176 | 18.54 | 18,000,000 | 8.38 | 1526 | 14.43 | 48.05 |
| Other Hispanic | 1452 | 8.48 | 9500,000 | 4.42 | 761 | 7.20 | 52.41 |
| Non-Hispanic white | 8232 | 48.05 | 150,000,000 | 69.85 | 5929 | 56.07 | 72.02 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 3472 | 20.27 | 24,000,000 | 11.18 | 1929 | 18.24 | 55.56 |
| Other, including multiracial | 800 | 4.67 | 13,000,000 | 6.05 | 429 | 4.06 | 53.63 |
| Age group, y | |||||||
| 20–29 | 3006 | 17.55 | 41,000,000 | 19.09 | 1581 | 14.95 | 52.59 |
| 30–39 | 2910 | 16.99 | 40,000,000 | 18.63 | 1660 | 15.70 | 57.04 |
| 40–49 | 2899 | 16.92 | 44,000,000 | 20.49 | 1766 | 16.70 | 60.92 |
| 50–59 | 2520 | 14.71 | 39,000,000 | 18.16 | 1619 | 15.31 | 64.25 |
| 60–69 | 2648 | 15.46 | 25,000,000 | 11.64 | 1817 | 17.18 | 68.62 |
| 70–79 | 1891 | 11.04 | 16,000,000 | 7.45 | 1337 | 12.64 | 70.70 |
| ≥80 | 1258 | 7.34 | 9,500,000 | 4.42 | 794 | 7.51 | 63.12 |
| Food security (raw: n = 12,797; with weighting n = 175,724,587) | |||||||
| High food security | 12,558 | 98.13 | 170,000,000 | 96.74 | 10,392 | 98.28 | 82.75 |
| Marginal food Security | 10 | 0.08 | 120,000 | 0.07 | 8 | 0.08 | 80.00 |
| Low food security | 108 | 0.84 | 900,000 | 0.51 | 79 | 0.75 | 73.15 |
| Very low food security | 121 | 0.95 | 1100,000 | 0.63 | 95 | 0.90 | 78.51 |