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Teen Obesity in Ohio - By gender
Were male or female Ohio high school students fatter? Check these findings from the 2003 YRBS on overweight high school students in Ohio, analyzed by gender.
Summary
13.9% of high school students surveyed in the YRBS were overweight.
By gender, 9.4% of females and 18.2% of males were overweight. Statistically, more male students were significantly overweight!
The YRBS provides 95% confidence intervals for each of these percentages by gender.
These are ranges for each measure where we can be 95% confident that the true pecentage for the population would lie in this interval if we could repeat the sampling survey over and over again.
Go to the original YRBS data by clicking the link:
Obervations from the YRBS link
As you can see if you click the link, the 95% confidence interval for female high school students was 9.4% +/- 2.6%, or (6.8%, 13.0%). For male high school students, the range was 18.2% +/-3.2%, or (15.0%, 21.4%).
Since the two intervals do not overlap, statisticians would say that these are significantly different results, that there were more overweight male high school students than female in the survey.
Since this is a national survey, you can be confident that, in most cases, this is generally the pattern across the USA.
Keywords: Nation, Obesity, Physical Activity, State, Statistics, Teens
