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2002 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Physical Activity

Now, thinking about the moderate physical activities you do when you are not working in a usual week, do you do moderate activities for at least 10 minutes at a time, such as brisk walking, bicycling, vacuuming, gardening, or anything else that causes smal l increases in breathing or heart rate?*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 76,784 64,109 83.3 82.9-83.7 12,675 16.7 16.3-17.1
Arizona 3,163 2,748 89.0 87.4-90.4 415 11.0 9.6-12.6
Colorado 3,946 3,508 88.4 87.1-89.6 438 11.6 10.4-12.9
Connecticut 5,345 4,570 84.3 82.9-85.6 775 15.7 14.4-17.1
Delaware 3,988 3,195 79.7 77.6-81.7 793 20.3 18.3-22.4
Hawaii 5,987 4,995 83.7 82.4-84.9 992 16.3 15.1-17.6
Illinois 2,571 2,022 78.1 76.2-80.0 549 21.9 20.0-23.8
Iowa 3,604 3,047 86.0 84.6-87.3 557 14.0 12.7-15.4
Maine 2,372 2,021 85.2 83.5-86.8 351 14.8 13.2-16.5
Maryland 4,250 3,640 84.5 82.9-85.9 610 15.5 14.1-17.1
Michigan 5,852 5,089 87.0 85.8-88.1 763 13.0 11.9-14.2
Missouri 4,613 3,823 83.4 81.9-84.9 790 16.6 15.1-18.1
Montana 3,925 3,423 89.4 88.1-90.5 502 10.6 9.5-11.9
North Carolina 6,623 5,149 76.5 74.8-78.2 1,474 23.5 21.8-25.2
North Dakota 2,906 2,585 89.6 88.3-90.8 321 10.4 9.2-11.7
Ohio 3,950 3,346 84.6 83.0-85.9 604 15.4 14.1-17.0
South Carolina 4,265 3,580 83.8 82.2-85.3 685 16.2 14.7-17.8
Tennessee 3,094 2,257 74.1 72.2-75.9 837 25.9 24.1-27.8
Virginia 4,197 3,523 84.8 83.2-86.3 674 15.2 13.7-16.8
Virgin Islands 2,133 1,588 72.4 69.8-74.9 545 27.6 25.1-30.2

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

* If a respondent reported less than 10 mins activity/week for the next phy. activity quest., that respondent was counted in NO category

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.

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