Obesity, Dietary Behavior, & Physical Activity
Fact Sheets
For the United States overall and for select states and school districts, these fact sheets present information about the percentages of youth who engage in certain risk behaviors, along with the status of school health policies and programs designed to address those behaviors.
United States
Obese Youth Over Time: Selected U.S. States
This fact sheet combines results from the 2011 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and 2006 School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) to
- Identify the percentage of high school students who are obese, engage in unhealthy dietary behaviors, or are physically inactive
- Describe characteristics of health education, physical education and activity, and the school environment among U.S. high schools that may help address the problem
States, Territories, and Large Urban School
Districts
These fact sheets combine results from the 2011 state,
territorial, and district
YRBS and 2010 state, territorial, and district
School Health Profiles surveys to
- Identify the percentage of high school students who are obese, engage in unhealthy dietary behaviors, or are physically inactive
- Describe state and local characteristics of health education, physical education, opportunities for physical activity, and the school environment among middle and high schools that may help address the problem
Note: The following
links are PDFs and text files and range in size from
approximately 100K-300K.
States* | ||||
Alabama pdf | txt |
Alaska pdf | txt |
Arizona pdf | txt |
Arkansas pdf | txt |
Colorado pdf | txt |
Connecticut pdf | txt |
Delaware pdf | txt |
Florida pdf | txt |
Georgia pdf | txt |
Hawaii pdf | txt |
Idaho pdf | txt |
Indiana pdf | txt |
Iowa pdf | txt |
Kansas pdf | txt |
Kentucky pdf | txt |
Louisiana pdf | txt |
Maine pdf | txt |
Maryland pdf | txt |
Massachusetts pdf | txt |
Michigan pdf | txt |
Mississippi pdf | txt |
Montana pdf | txt |
Nebraska pdf | txt |
New Hampshire pdf | txt |
New Jersey pdf | txt |
New Mexico pdf | txt |
New York pdf | txt |
North Carolina pdf | txt |
North Dakota pdf | txt |
Ohio pdf | txt |
Oklahoma pdf | txt |
Rhode Island pdf | txt |
South Carolina pdf | txt |
South Dakota pdf | txt |
Tennessee pdf | txt |
Texas pdf | txt |
Utah pdf | txt |
Vermont pdf | txt |
Virginia pdf | txt |
Wisconsin pdf | txt |
West Virginia pdf | txt |
Wyoming pdf | txt |
Districts* | |
Broward County, FL pdf | txt |
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC pdf | txt |
District of Columbia pdf | txt |
Chicago, IL pdf | txt |
Houston, TX pdf | txt |
Detroit, MI pdf | txt |
Los Angeles, CA pdf | txt |
Memphis, TN pdf | txt |
Miami-Dade County, FL pdf | txt |
Milwaukee, WI pdf | txt |
New York City, NY pdf | txt |
Orange County, FL pdf | txt |
Palm Beach County, FL pdf | txt |
Philadelphia, PA pdf | txt |
San Diego, CA pdf | txt |
San Francisco, CA pdf | txt |
Seattle, WA pdf | txt |
Territories* | |
American Samoa pdf | txt |
Guam pdf | txt |
Northern
Mariana Islands pdf | txt |
*States, districts, and territories listed above had weighted data for both the 2011 YRBS and 2010 Profiles. This means that for YRBS, the site achieved at least a 60% overall response rate. For Profiles, the site achieved at least a 70% school response rate. With weighted data, it is possible to say, for example, "X% of high school students in our state smoked cigarettes during the past month and X% of middle schools and high schools in our state taught tobacco use prevention education."
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