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Obesity among High School Students by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 2001 to 2019

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Year20012003200520072009201120132015201720190.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%8.0%10.0%12.0%14.0%16.0%18.0%Estimated Percentage of High School Students in Grades 9-12Obesity among High School Students by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 2001 to 2019New JerseyUnited States
New Jersey, United StatesYearEstimated Percentage of High School Students in Grades 9-1295% Confidence Interval, Lower Limit95% Confidence Interval, Upper LimitFootnotes

New Jersey

 34000New Jersey2001200110.0%8.4%11.8%
 34000New Jersey200320039.3%
 34000New Jersey2005200511.3%8.6%14.6%
 34000New Jersey2007200710.7%7.8%13.6%
 34000New Jersey2009200910.2%8.4%12.3%
 34000New Jersey2011201111.0%9.2%13.2%
 34000New Jersey201320138.7%6.8%11.2%
 34000New Jersey20152015**
 34000New Jersey20172017**
 34000New Jersey2019201911.9%9.9%14.3%

United States

 100000United States2001200110.5%9.5%11.5%
 100000United States2003200312.0%10.7%13.4%
 100000United States2005200513.0%12.1%13.9%
 100000United States2007200712.8%11.8%13.9%
 100000United States2009200911.8%10.8%13.0%
 100000United States2011201113.0%11.7%14.4%
 100000United States2013201313.7%12.6%14.9%
 100000United States2015201513.9%12.5%15.5%
 100000United States2017201714.8%13.8%15.8%
 100000United States2019201915.5%13.8%17.3%
  • **Rate does not meet National Center for Health Statistics standards of statistically reliability for presentation (RSE >=23% and n<20).

Why Is This Important?

Obesity has more than tripled among children and adolescents since the 1970s.1

Definition

Percent of high school students who were obese (greater than or equal to the 95th percentile for body mass index, by age and sex)

Data Notes

This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective NF-1b.

Survey is conducted in odd-numbered years only. Confidence limits not available for 2003 NJ data. ** 2015 and 2017 NJ survey data not available.

Data Sources

How the Measure is Calculated

  • Numerator:

    Number of high school students whose body mass index was greater than or equal to the 95th percentile for Body Mass Index (BMI) for their age and gender

  • Denominator:

    Total number of high school students surveyed

Data Issues

In 2015 and 2017, the New Jersey Student Health Survey was unable to obtain the number of student responses needed to reach the 60% response rate required by the CDC to be able to weight the data to be representative of the New Jersey high school student population.

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Indicator Data Last Updated On 10/26/2020, Published on 07/30/2024
Office of Nutrition and Fitness, Division of Community Health, New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, NJ 08625 (https://www.nj.gov/health/nutrition/)