Table 3.
Number of participants who reported participating in any one or a combination of at least two leisure-time activities examined, NHANES 1999–2006
| Activity* | Walking (n = 5349), n (%) |
Bicycling (n = 1697), n (%) |
Running (n = 2451), n (%) |
Dance (n = 1361), n (%) |
Golf (n = 760), n (%) |
Stretching (n = 830), n (%) |
Weightlifting (n = 1261), n (%) |
Median number of activities reported (IQR) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walking | 2013 (32.8) | 735 (45.5) | 1047 (45.3) | 581 (45.4) | 329 (43.9) | 482 (61.3) | 518 (42.1) | 2 (3) |
| Bicycling | 735 (15.7) | 243 (2.26) | 593 (25.8) | 172 (14.7) | 156 (21.7) | 187 (23.2) | 358 (30.7) | 3 (3) |
| Running | 1047 (22.2) | 593 (36.6) | 294 (10.5) | 360 (27.5) | 196 (28.1) | 308 (40.5) | 671 (55.8) | 4 (4) |
| Dance | 581 (10.4) | 172 (9.8) | 360 (12.9) | 286 (2.36) | 56 (8.1) | 179 (20.5) | 186 (13.5) | 3 (3) |
| Golf | 329 (7.62) | 156 (10.9) | 196 (9.9) | 56 (6.11) | 123 (1.43) | 52 (8.4) | 122 (11.6) | 3 (3) |
| Stretching | 482 (9.2) | 187 (10.1) | 308 (12.4) | 179 (13.4) | 52 (7.2) | 67 (0.4) | 259 (19.8) | 4 (3) |
| Weightlifting | 518 (11.0) | 358 (23.3) | 671 (29.8) | 186 (15.3) | 122 (17.5) | 259 (34.5) | 86 (0.8) | 4 (3) |
| Total† | 1 (2) |
Reported percentages are weighted column percentages.
IQR = interquartile range.
*
Participants reporting only one activity are represented in the junction of the activity column and row. Activity groupings are not mutually exclusive—participants who reported more than two activities are represented in multiple cells.
†
Entire analytic sample (n = 17,938).