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Description

For sample adults who had participated in aerobics or aerobic dancing in the past 2 weeks (EXAEROB), EXAEROBMIN reports the average number of minutes respondents had spent doing aerobics/aerobic dancing each time they had engaged in that activity over the past 2 weeks.

After determining that a respondent participated in aerobics or aerobic dancing, respondents were first asked, "How many times in the past 2 weeks did you do aerobics or aerobic dancing?" (EXAEROBNO). They were then asked, "On the average, about how many minutes did you spend (doing) aerobics or aerobic dancing each time?"

As a follow-up, respondents were asked how much their heart rate or breathing had increased while doing aerobics/aerobic dancing (EXAEROBBR).

EXAEROBMIN is used as one of the input variables in the IHIS-created variable EXSUM1, which is a summary variable that reports whether a respondent would have met the exercise recommendations set forth in the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.

Comparability

Apart from universe changes, EXAEROBMIN is fully comparable across all years.

Universe

Codes

This is a 3-digit numeric variable.

Availability

• 1985, 1990-1991, 1995, 1998

Weights

• 1985, 1990-1991, 1998 : SAMPWEIGHT
• 1995 : SUPP2WT