22-3.
Increase the proportion of adults who engage in vigorous physical activity that promotes the development and maintenance of cardiorespiratory fitness 3 or more days per week for 20 or more minutes per occasion.
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22-3. | |
Increase the proportion of adults who engage in vigorous physical activity that promotes the development and maintenance of cardiorespiratory fitness 3 or more days per week for 20 or more minutes per occasion. |
Target: 30 percent.
Baseline: 23 percent of adults aged 18 years and older engaged in vigorous physical activity 3 or more days per week for 20 or more minutes per occasion in 1997 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.
|
Adults Aged 18 Years and Older, 1997 |
Vigorous Physical Activity |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
23 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
19 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
17 |
|
Asian |
16 |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
24 |
|
Black or African American |
17 |
|
White |
24 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
16 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
24 |
|
Black or African American |
17 |
|
White |
25 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
20 |
|
Male |
26 |
|
Education level (aged 25 years and older) |
|
|
Less than 9th grade |
6 |
|
Grades 9 through 11 |
12 |
|
High school graduate |
18 |
|
Some college or AA degree |
24 |
|
College graduate and above |
32 |
|
Geographic location |
|
|
Urban |
24 |
|
Rural |
21 |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with disabilities |
13 |
|
Persons without disabilities |
25 |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Age groups |
|
|
18 to 24 years |
32 |
|
25 to 44 years |
27 |
|
45 to 64 years |
21 |
|
65 to 74 years |
13 |
|
75 years and older |
6 |
|
Persons with arthritis symptoms |
21 |
|
Persons without arthritis symptoms |
24 |
DNA = Data have not been
analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically
unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.