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FIGURE 2-3
Average minutes/day of accelerometer-measured
vigorous- or moderate-
intensity physical activity by years of age and source.
NOTE: NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
SOURCES: Nader et al., 2008; Troiano et al., 2008.
Figure 2-3.eps
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
9
11
12
15
6-11
12-15
16-19
Av
erage Minutes per Da
y
Study of Early Child Care and
Development (Nader et al., 2008)
NHANES
(Troiano et al., 2008)
do or do not achieve
a set number of minutes, as presented in Figures 2-1
and 2-2. These three figures illustrate some of the difficulties entailed in
comparing studies that used different measurement methods (i.e., self-
report versus accelerometer-measured) and different types of data summary
(i.e., proportion meeting a specific standard
versus average of the whole
group).
In addition to the low proportion of children and adolescents meeting
currently recommended physical activity levels and the decline in vigorous-
or moderate-intensity
physical activity with age, data from the above and
other surveys indicate,
almost without exception, that girls are less active
than boys (see Figure 2-4). Patterns of activity by race/ethnicity are less
clear. Large surveys (e.g., YRBS, Monitoring the Future)
using self-reported
information usually find that whites report more vigorous- or moderate-
intensity physical activity than other racial/ethnic groups (Simons-Morton
et al., 1997; Delva et al., 2006; CDC, 2012a). In the National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), however, in which physical
activity is assessed using accelerometers, non-Hispanic blacks are the group
with the most vigorous- or moderate-intensity physical activity (Troiano et
al., 2008; Gortmaker et al., 2012). In a study of 6th-grade
girls from six
states, also using accelerometers to assess physical
activity, white girls had
the highest average number of minutes of vigorous- or moderate-intensity
physical activity, while African American girls had the highest prevalence
of meeting physical activity recommendations (Pate et al., 2006b). An
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