Usual Intake of Total Milk, Yogurt, & Cheese

Table 32 includes the mean, standard error of the mean, and percentiles of the distribution of intake; Appendix Table A32 provides percentile values (rounded) and their standard errors.

Table 32. Total milk, yogurt, and cheese: Mean (standard error) and percentiles³ of usual intake, 2001-2004
	Age (years)	N¹	Mean (SE)²	5%	10%	25%	50%	75%	90%	95%
	Age (years)	N¹	Cup Equivalents⁴
Children	1-3	1515	2.5 (0.07)	0.95	1.20	1.70	2.35	3.10	3.87	4.38
Children	4-8	1701	2.3 (0.07)	0.84	1.08	1.57	2.18	2.91	3.65	4.12
Males	9-13	1061	2.6 (0.10)	0.80	1.07	1.62	2.40	3.38	4.43	5.18
	14-18	1424	2.5 (0.10)	0.74	1.00	1.55	2.32	3.29	4.34	5.04
	19-30	1100	2.2 (0.10)	0.57	0.79	1.29	1.99	2.87	3.83	4.52
	31-50	1466	1.8 (0.06)	0.45	0.63	1.03	1.63	2.40	3.28	3.87
	51-70	1252	1.5 (0.05)	0.33	0.48	0.81	1.31	1.96	2.69	3.21
	71+	832	1.6 (0.06)	0.39	0.54	0.88	1.39	2.06	2.83	3.36
	19+	4650	1.8 (0.04)	0.42	0.60	0.99	1.59	2.38	3.26	3.87
Females	9-13	1112	2.1 (0.08)	0.69	0.91	1.34	1.93	2.64	3.40	3.92
	14-18	1362	1.7 (0.07)	0.46	0.65	1.02	1.54	2.18	2.87	3.34
	19-30	1325	1.5 (0.06)	0.39	0.56	0.92	1.41	2.03	2.69	3.14
	31-50	1595	1.4 (0.04)	0.34	0.50	0.83	1.29	1.87	2.50	2.92
	51-70	1284	1.2 (0.04)	0.28	0.41	0.70	1.11	1.64	2.21	2.62
	71+	860	1.2 (0.04)	0.28	0.41	0.69	1.09	1.60	2.15	2.53
	19+	5064	1.4 (0.03)	0.32	0.47	0.79	1.24	1.81	2.44	2.86
All Persons	1+	17889	1.8 (0.03)	0.41	0.59	0.98	1.56	2.33	3.19	3.79

1: Number of persons in sample.

2: Standard error of the mean (df=30).

3: Standard errors of the percentiles are presented in Appendix Table A32.

4: 1 cup equivalent = 1 cup of milk or yogurt; the amount of cheese that contains the same amount of calcium (302 mg) as 1 cup of skim milk (generally 1.5 ounces natural cheese or 2 ounces processed cheese).

Table A32. Total milk, yogurt, and cheese: Percentiles (and standard errors) of usual intake, 2001- 2004
	Age (years)	5% (SE)¹	10% (SE)	25% (SE)	50% (SE)	75% (SE)	90% (SE)	95% (SE)
	Age (years)	Cup Equivalents²
Children	1-3	0.9 (0.08)	1.2 (0.07)	1.7 (0.06)	2.3 (0.07)	3.1 (0.11)	3.9 (0.16)	4.4 (0.21)
Children	4-8	0.8 (0.06)	1.1 (0.06)	1.6 (0.05)	2.2 (0.06)	2.9 (0.10)	3.6 (0.16)	4.1 (0.21)
Males	9-13	0.8 (0.07)	1.1 (0.07)	1.6 (0.08)	2.4 (0.09)	3.4 (0.13)	4.4 (0.19)	5.2 (0.25)
	14-18	0.7 (0.08)	1.0 (0.08)	1.6 (0.09)	2.3 (0.09)	3.3 (0.12)	4.3 (0.18)	5.0 (0.23)
	19-30	0.6 (0.06)	0.8 (0.06)	1.3 (0.08)	2.0 (0.10)	2.9 (0.13)	3.8 (0.20)	4.5 (0.25)
	31-50	0.4 (0.05)	0.6 (0.06)	1.0 (0.06)	1.6 (0.06)	2.4 (0.08)	3.3 (0.13)	3.9 (0.17)
	51-70	0.3 (0.04)	0.5 (0.04)	0.8 (0.04)	1.3 (0.05)	2.0 (0.08)	2.7 (0.12)	3.2 (0.16)
	71+	0.4 (0.04)	0.5 (0.05)	0.9 (0.05)	1.4 (0.06)	2.1 (0.09)	2.8 (0.13)	3.4 (0.17)
	19+	0.4 (0.04)	0.6 (0.04)	1.0 (0.04)	1.6 (0.04)	2.4 (0.06)	3.3 (0.12)	3.9 (0.16)
Females	9-13	0.7 (0.05)	0.9 (0.05)	1.3 (0.06)	1.9 (0.08)	2.6 (0.11)	3.4 (0.15)	3.9 (0.18)
	14-18	0.5 (0.05)	0.7 (0.05)	1.0 (0.06)	1.5 (0.07)	2.2 (0.08)	2.9 (0.11)	3.3 (0.13)
	19-30	0.4 (0.04)	0.6 (0.05)	0.9 (0.05)	1.4 (0.06)	2.0 (0.08)	2.7 (0.10)	3.1 (0.13)
	31-50	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.03)	0.8 (0.03)	1.3 (0.04)	1.9 (0.06)	2.5 (0.08)	2.9 (0.11)
	51-70	0.3 (0.03)	0.4 (0.03)	0.7 (0.03)	1.1 (0.03)	1.6 (0.05)	2.2 (0.08)	2.6 (0.10)
	71+	0.3 (0.03)	0.4 (0.03)	0.7 (0.04)	1.1 (0.04)	1.6 (0.05)	2.1 (0.07)	2.5 (0.08)
	19+	0.3 (0.03)	0.5 (0.03)	0.8 (0.03)	1.2 (0.03)	1.8 (0.04)	2.4 (0.07)	2.9 (0.09)
All	1+	0.4 (0.02)	0.6 (0.02)	1.0 (0.02)	1.6 (0.03)	2.3 (0.04)	3.2 (0.06)	3.8 (0.08)

1: Standard error of the percentile.

2: 1 cup equivalent = 1 cup of milk or yogurt; the amount of cheese that contains the same amount of calcium (302 mg) as 1 cup of skim milk (generally 1.5 ounces natural cheese or 2 ounces processed cheese).

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