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Appendix B: Minutes per day of physical activity in bouts, overall and by age, sex, and race/ethnicity, among participants with at least one bout,
NHANES, 2003-2006
a
Mean Minutes/day Above Cutpoints in Bouts
>=1000
>=1500
counts/minute
counts/minute
>=500 counts/minute
>=2000
counts/minute
Counts
N
Weighted
Mean
Minutes/
Day
Standard
Error of
the
Mean
N
Weighted
Mean
Minutes/
Day
Standard
Error of
the
Mean
N
Weighted
Mean
Minutes/
Day
Standard
Error of
the
Mean
N
Weighted
Mean
Minutes/
Day
Standard
Error of
the
Mean
Overall
2279
66.1
1.74
1597
36.8
1.18
1076
29.7
0.80
731
27.6
0.70
Age groups
60~69
70~79
80 and older
1110
743
426
78.0
57.7
45.2
2.69
2.51
2.74
876
497
224
39.6
34.1
30.1
1.69
1.53
2.25
622
325
129
30.9
28.1
26.9
1.26
0.99
2.18
443
212
76
27.8
27.6
25.6
1.11
1.21
2.13
Sex
Men
Women
1176
1103
74.1
59.5
2.21
2.05
882
715
40.1
33.5
1.64
1.07
611
465
32.0
27.2
1.36
0.77
414
317
28.4
26.7
0.95
0.89
1351
63.7
1.99
911
36.5
1.33
619
29.6
0.94
411
27.6
0.79
375
68.2
3.19
262
29.4
1.30
152
25.5
1.25
98
26.2
1.92
489
64
81.0
94.3
5.11
12.74
371
53
38.6
53.5
2.25
5.86
267
38
28.5
38.7
1.56
2.57
189
33
26.0
29.7
1.49
2.42
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic
white
Non-Hispanic
black
Hispanic
Other
a
Bouts were defined as >=10 consecutive minutes above the threshold, with allowance for interruptions of 1 or 2 minutes below the threshold.