Usual Intake of Total Meat, Poultry, Fish, & Other Seafood

Table 24 includes the mean, standard error of the mean, and percentiles of the distribution of intake; Appendix Table A24 provides percentile values (rounded) and their standard errors.

Table 24. Total meat, poultry, fish, and other seafood: 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	Cooked Lean Ounce Equivalents⁴
Children	1-3	1515	2.0 (0.09)	0.75	0.99	1.40	1.90	2.48	3.10	3.52
Children	4-8	1701	2.9 (0.09)	1.31	1.63	2.16	2.81	3.54	4.30	4.79
Males	9-13	1061	4.0 (0.15)	1.83	2.22	2.94	3.85	4.88	5.98	6.70
	14-18	1424	5.2 (0.20)	2.55	3.08	3.97	5.08	6.35	7.62	8.48
	19-30	1100	6.1 (0.18)	3.01	3.62	4.68	5.94	7.33	8.77	9.70
	31-50	1466	6.4 (0.16)	3.41	3.95	4.94	6.18	7.60	9.05	9.98
	51-70	1252	5.5 (0.13)	2.80	3.32	4.23	5.35	6.64	7.94	8.81
	71+	832	4.1 (0.11)	1.92	2.32	3.05	3.97	5.03	6.13	6.85
	19+	4650	5.9 (0.10)	2.84	3.41	4.44	5.71	7.13	8.57	9.51
Females	9-13	1112	3.1 (0.13)	1.55	1.86	2.38	3.02	3.74	4.47	4.97
	14-18	1362	3.3 (0.12)	1.53	1.93	2.53	3.25	4.04	4.84	5.37
	19-30	1325	4.0 (0.11)	2.01	2.44	3.11	3.90	4.78	5.63	6.21
	31-50	1595	3.9 (0.11)	2.02	2.42	3.07	3.84	4.69	5.56	6.12
	51-70	1284	3.6 (0.13)	1.91	2.24	2.82	3.52	4.31	5.12	5.65
	71+	860	3.1 (0.09)	1.59	1.88	2.38	3.00	3.70	4.41	4.87
	19+	5064	3.8 (0.08)	1.90	2.27	2.90	3.66	4.51	5.37	5.93
All Persons	1+	17889	4.4 (0.06)	1.73	2.17	2.98	4.07	5.51	7.13	8.18

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 A24.

4: 1 ounce equivalent = 1 ounce cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish.

Table A24. Total meat, poultry, fish, and other seafood: 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)	Cooked Lean Ounce Equivalents²
Children	1-3	0.7 (0.15)	1.0 (0.13)	1.4 (0.11)	1.9 (0.10)	2.5 (0.09)	3.1 (0.12)	3.5 (0.15)
Children	4-8	1.3 (0.13)	1.6 (0.10)	2.2 (0.08)	2.8 (0.09)	3.5 (0.13)	4.3 (0.20)	4.8 (0.24)
Males	9-13	1.8 (0.14)	2.2 (0.13)	2.9 (0.13)	3.8 (0.15)	4.9 (0.18)	6.0 (0.23)	6.7 (0.27)
	14-18	2.6 (0.19)	3.1 (0.18)	4.0 (0.18)	5.1 (0.20)	6.4 (0.23)	7.6 (0.28)	8.5 (0.31)
	19-30	3.0 (0.25)	3.6 (0.19)	4.7 (0.17)	5.9 (0.17)	7.3 (0.19)	8.8 (0.25)	9.7 (0.30)
	31-50	3.4 (0.20)	4.0 (0.18)	4.9 (0.16)	6.2 (0.16)	7.6 (0.18)	9.0 (0.23)	10.0 (0.27)
	51-70	2.8 (0.16)	3.3 (0.13)	4.2 (0.13)	5.4 (0.13)	6.6 (0.17)	7.9 (0.22)	8.8 (0.27)
	71+	1.9 (0.15)	2.3 (0.13)	3.0 (0.11)	4.0 (0.10)	5.0 (0.12)	6.1 (0.16)	6.9 (0.20)
	19+	2.8 (0.14)	3.4 (0.12)	4.4 (0.10)	5.7 (0.10)	7.1 (0.13)	8.6 (0.19)	9.5 (0.24)
Females	9-13	1.5 (0.18)	1.9 (0.18)	2.4 (0.16)	3.0 (0.15)	3.7 (0.14)	4.5 (0.15)	5.0 (0.17)
	14-18	1.5 (0.15)	1.9 (0.14)	2.5 (0.13)	3.3 (0.12)	4.0 (0.14)	4.8 (0.19)	5.4 (0.24)
	19-30	2.0 (0.15)	2.4 (0.14)	3.1 (0.12)	3.9 (0.11)	4.8 (0.14)	5.6 (0.20)	6.2 (0.25)
	31-50	2.0 (0.15)	2.4 (0.15)	3.1 (0.13)	3.8 (0.12)	4.7 (0.12)	5.6 (0.17)	6.1 (0.22)
	51-70	1.9 (0.18)	2.2 (0.17)	2.8 (0.16)	3.5 (0.14)	4.3 (0.13)	5.1 (0.16)	5.6 (0.19)
	71+	1.6 (0.13)	1.9 (0.13)	2.4 (0.11)	3.0 (0.09)	3.7 (0.10)	4.4 (0.14)	4.9 (0.18)
	19+	1.9 (0.13)	2.3 (0.13)	2.9 (0.11)	3.7 (0.09)	4.5 (0.09)	5.4 (0.14)	5.9 (0.19)
All	1+	1.7 (0.08)	2.2 (0.09)	3.0 (0.08)	4.1 (0.06)	5.5 (0.09)	7.1 (0.11)	8.2 (0.16)

1: Standard error of the percentile.

2: 1 ounce equivalent = 1 ounce cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish.

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