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2003 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 small increases in breathing or heart rate?*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 261729 213909 81.6 81.3-81.9 47,820 18.4 18.1-18.7
Alabama 3,284 2,573 79.7 78.1-81.3 711 20.3 18.7-21.9
Alaska 2,632 2,252 85.9 84.0-87.7 380 14.1 12.3-16.0
Arizona 3,198 2,663 82.5 80.3-84.6 535 17.5 15.4-19.7
Arkansas 4,100 3,347 82.4 81.0-83.6 753 17.6 16.4-19.0
California 4,303 3,696 84.6 83.2-85.9 607 15.4 14.1-16.8
Colorado 4,019 3,519 87.4 86.2-88.5 500 12.6 11.5-13.8
Connecticut 5,189 4,355 83.1 81.8-84.3 834 16.9 15.7-18.2
Delaware 4,040 3,222 80.0 78.3-81.6 818 20.0 18.4-21.7
District of Columbia 1,983 1,669 81.0 78.5-83.2 314 19.0 16.8-21.5
Florida 4,942 3,827 77.7 75.8-79.5 1,115 22.3 20.5-24.2
Georgia 7,533 5,883 78.9 77.5-80.2 1,650 21.1 19.8-22.5
Hawaii 5,840 4,720 80.1 78.7-81.4 1,120 19.9 18.6-21.3
Idaho 4,938 4,338 88.7 87.6-89.7 600 11.3 10.3-12.4
Illinois 5,212 4,201 80.6 79.1-82.0 1,011 19.4 18.0-20.9
Indiana 5,352 4,469 84.1 83.0-85.2 883 15.9 14.8-17.0
Iowa 4,922 4,082 83.8 82.5-85.0 840 16.2 15.0-17.5
Kansas 4,567 3,697 81.2 79.9-82.5 870 18.8 17.5-20.1
Kentucky 7,379 5,092 71.5 69.9-73.0 2,287 28.5 27.0-30.1
Louisiana 5,001 3,676 73.9 72.5-75.3 1,325 26.1 24.7-27.5
Maine 2,347 1,979 84.7 83.0-86.2 368 15.3 13.8-17.0
Maryland 4,325 3,650 83.4 81.8-84.8 675 16.6 15.2-18.2
Massachusetts 7,348 6,049 84.2 83.1-85.2 1,299 15.8 14.8-16.9
Michigan 3,520 2,958 84.7 83.3-86.1 562 15.3 13.9-16.7
Minnesota 3,858 3,470 90.4 89.3-91.4 388 9.6 8.6-10.7
Mississippi 4,365 3,264 76.0 74.5-77.5 1,101 24.0 22.5-25.5
Missouri 4,202 3,429 83.2 81.6-84.8 773 16.8 15.2-18.4
Montana 3,964 3,417 88.5 87.2-89.7 547 11.5 10.3-12.8
Nebraska 4,914 4,108 84.3 83.1-85.5 806 15.7 14.5-16.9
Nevada 2,940 2,470 82.1 79.9-84.1 470 17.9 15.9-20.1
New Hampshire 4,941 4,311 87.3 86.2-88.4 630 12.7 11.6-13.8
New Jersey 10,991 8,937 79.7 78.7-80.7 2,054 20.3 19.3-21.3
New Mexico 5,353 4,510 84.0 82.7-85.2 843 16.0 14.8-17.3
New York 5,393 4,399 79.0 77.6-80.4 994 21.0 19.6-22.4
North Carolina 9,402 6,920 74.3 72.9-75.7 2,482 25.7 24.3-27.1
North Dakota 2,969 2,533 87.0 85.7-88.2 436 13.0 11.8-14.3
Ohio 3,748 3,120 83.2 81.7-84.7 628 16.8 15.3-18.3
Oklahoma 7,612 5,950 78.6 77.5-79.7 1,662 21.4 20.3-22.5
Oregon 3,952 3,426 85.9 84.5-87.1 526 14.1 12.9-15.5
Pennsylvania 3,600 3,070 85.3 83.9-86.5 530 14.7 13.5-16.1
Rhode Island 3,959 3,240 82.5 81.0-83.9 719 17.5 16.1-19.0
South Carolina 5,763 4,770 82.2 81.0-83.4 993 17.8 16.6-19.0
South Dakota 5,221 4,231 82.7 81.5-83.9 990 17.3 16.1-18.5
Tennessee 2,550 1,880 74.8 72.9-76.7 670 25.2 23.3-27.1
Texas 5,879 4,685 78.8 77.5-80.1 1,194 21.2 19.9-22.5
Utah 4,019 3,545 88.4 87.0-89.7 474 11.6 10.3-13.0
Vermont 4,190 3,650 88.2 87.1-89.3 540 11.8 10.7-12.9
Virginia 5,302 4,366 83.5 82.0-84.8 936 16.5 15.2-18.0
Washington 18,444 16,175 88.1 87.4-88.7 2,269 11.9 11.3-12.6
West Virginia 3,332 2,628 80.6 79.0-82.0 704 19.4 18.0-21.0
Wisconsin 3,987 3,505 89.4 88.2-90.5 482 10.6 9.5-11.8
Wyoming 3,963 3,434 87.2 86.1-88.3 529 12.8 11.7-13.9
Guam 788 619 77.7 74.0-80.9 169 22.3 19.1-26.0
Puerto Rico 4,154 2,499 61.3 59.4-63.3 1,655 38.7 36.7-40.6
Virgin Islands 2,000 1,431 69.5 66.6-72.2 569 30.5 27.8-33.4

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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 and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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