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Increase the proportion of adolescents who participate in daily school physical education.

Target: 50 percent.

Baseline: 29 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 participated in daily school physical education in 1999.

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), CDC, NCCDPHP.

Students in Grades 9
Through 12, 1999 (unless noted)

Daily School Physical Education

22-9.
Both
Genders

Females*

Males*

Percent

TOTAL

29

26

32

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska
Native

DSU

DSU

DSU

Asian or Pacific Islander

DSU

DSU

DSU

Asian

DSU

DSU

DSU

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

DSU

DSU

DSU

Black or African American

28

25

33

White

28

26

31

 

Hispanic or Latino

40

36

45

Not Hispanic or Latino

28

25

30

Black or African American

29

26

33

White

28

26

31

Parents’ education level

Less than high school

29 (1997)

28 (1997)

30 (1997)

High school graduate

24 (1997)

22 (1997)

27 (1997)

At least some college

28 (1997)

25 (1997)

30 (1997)

Select populations

Grade levels

9th grade

42

40

44

10th grade

30

28

33

11th grade

20

17

24

12th grade

20

17

24

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
*Data for females and males are displayed to further characterize the issue.