22-4.
Increase the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain muscular strength and endurance.
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22-4. | |
Increase the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain muscular strength and endurance. |
Target: 30 percent.
Baseline: 18 percent of adults aged 18 years and older performed physical activities that enhance and maintain strength and endurance 2 or more days per week in 1998 (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, 1998 (unless noted) |
Strengthening and
Endurance |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
18 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
18 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
17 |
|
Asian |
17 |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
19 |
|
Black or African American |
16 |
|
White |
18 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
13 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
18 |
|
Black or African American |
15 |
|
White |
19 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
14 |
|
Male |
21 |
|
Education level (aged 25 years and older) |
|
|
Less than 9th grade |
4 |
|
Grades 9 through 11 |
8 |
|
High school graduate |
11 |
|
Some college or AA degree |
19 |
|
College graduate and above |
26 |
|
Geographic location |
|
|
Urban |
19 |
|
Rural |
15 |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with disabilities |
14 (1997) |
|
Persons without disabilities |
20 (1997) |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Age Groups |
|
|
18 to 24 years (not age adjusted) |
28 |
|
25 to 44 years (not age adjusted) |
21 |
|
45 to 64 years (not age adjusted) |
14 |
|
65 to 74 years (not age adjusted) |
10 |
|
75 years and older (not age adjusted) |
7 |
|
Persons with arthritis symptoms |
18 |
|
Persons without arthritis symptoms |
18 |
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.