Table 7 Ranking for proportion of time in lifestyle activity by occupational category and by sex: NHANES 2003–2004 (n = 1112)
From: Classification of occupational activity categories using accelerometry: NHANES 2003–2004
Rank | Occupational category | Overall n | Lifestyle activity M (SE) | Men n | Lifestyle activity M (SE) | Women n | Lifestyle activity M (SE) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Cleaning and building service occupations | 23 | 18.1 (1.9) | 15 | 18.8 (2.2) | 8 | 16.9 (4.7) |
2 | Freight, stock, and material movers (hand) | 14 | 17.2 (2) | 11 | 16.6 (2.5) | 3 | 19 (1) |
3 | Farm and nursery workers | 6 | 17.1 (2.6) | 5 | 18.4 (2.2) | 1 | 9.1 (0) |
4 | Related agricultural, forestry, and fishing | 21 | 17 (0.8) | 21 | 17 (0.8) | 13 | 9.9 (0.8) |
5 | Construction laborers | 9 | 16.8 (1.4) | 9 | 16.8 (1.4) | 0 | - |
6 | Other helpers, cleaners, hand packagers, laborers | 18 | 16.7 (1.6) | 12 | 19.8 (1.9) | 6 | 11.5 (1.1) |
7 | Construction trades | 58 | 16.4 (0.6) | 57 | 16.4 (0.6) | 1 | 11.1 (0) |
8 | Farm operators, managers, and supervisors | 5 | 15.9 (0.7) | 4 | 16.4 (0.7) | 1 | 11.8 (0) |
9 | Laborers, except construction | 3 | 15.2 (3.8) | 1 | 8.3 (0) | 2 | 20.7 (2.3) |
10 | Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations | 27 | 14.8 (1.5) | 19 | 15.7 (1.8) | 8 | 12.8 (2.1) |
11 | Waiters and waitresses | 7 | 14.4 (2.1) | 2 | 23.4 (3.6) | 5 | 12.9 (2.6) |
12 | Other mechanics and repairers | 37 | 14.3 (0.6) | 37 | 14.3 (0.6) | 0 | - |
13 | Textile, apparel, furnishings machine operators | 8 | 14.3 (3.2) | 3 | 17.6 (6) | 5 | 13.4 (3.6) |
14 | Material recording, scheduling, distributing clerks | 19 | 14.2 (3.5) | 12 | 16.1 (4.7) | 7 | 9.6 (1.3) |
15 | Machine operators, assorted materials | 22 | 14.2 (1.4) | 17 | 15.8 (1.1) | 5 | 6.9 (1) |
16 | Vehicle and mobile equip. mechanics, repairers | 15 | 13.9 (1.6) | 15 | 13.9 (1.6) | 0 | - |
17 | Health service occupations | 38 | 13 (1) | 7 | 14.1 (1.4) | 31 | 12.7 (1) |
18 | Other transportation and material moving | 21 | 12.9 (0.8) | 20 | 13.1 (0.8) | 1 | 9.8 (0) |
19 | Private household occupations | 9 | 12.9 (3.5) | 0 | - | 9 | 12.9 (3.5) |
20 | Sales workers, retail and personal services | 26 | 12.8 (1.1) | 12 | 12.9 (1.1) | 0 | - |
21 | Extractive and precision production occupations | 47 | 12.8 (0.9) | 38 | 12.6 (0.7) | 9 | 13.6 (4) |
22 | Fabricators, assemblers, inspectors, and samplers | 28 | 12.6 (1.6) | 16 | 14.7 (2.1) | 12 | 8.6 (0.7) |
23 | Motor vehicle operators | 61 | 12.4 (0.9) | 59 | 12.7 (0.9) | 2 | 6.3 (1.1) |
24 | Miscellaneous food preparation and service | 14 | 12 (1.5) | 6 | 12.2 (1.4) | 8 | 11.9 (2) |
25 | Cooks | 24 | 10.9 (1.1) | 13 | 11.2 (1.3) | 11 | 10.2 (1.9) |
26 | Sales reps., finance, business, & commodities | 29 | 10.6 (0.9) | 16 | 11 (1.6) | 14 | 12.8 (1.6) |
27 | Protective service occupations | 13 | 10.4 (0.8) | 10 | 10.1 (0.9) | 3 | 12.4 (0.8) |
28 | Executive, administrators, and managers | 112 | 10.3 (0.4) | 67 | 11.2 (0.6) | 45 | 8.8 (0.5) |
29 | Other professional specialty occupations | 39 | 10.2 (0.8) | 16 | 10.6 (1.4) | 23 | 9.9 (0.8) |
30 | Personal service occupations | 14 | 10.2 (1.1) | 3 | 13.6 (1.5) | 11 | 8.7 (1) |
31 | Writers, artists, entertainers, and athletes | 15 | 10 (1) | 9 | 11 (1.3) | 6 | 8.6 (1) |
32 | Miscellaneous administrative support occupations | 65 | 9.8 (0.5) | 16 | 12.3 (1.4) | 49 | 9.1 (0.6) |
33 | Management related occupations | 49 | 9.8 (0.5) | 23 | 10.8 (1) | 26 | 8.6 (0.7) |
34 | Health diagnosing, assessing and treating | 42 | 9.6 (0.5) | 8 | 10.2 (1.4) | 34 | 9.5 (0.5) |
35 | Teachers | 40 | 9.6 (0.7) | 11 | 12.2 (0.7) | 29 | 8.8 (1) |
36 | Information clerks | 18 | 9.4 (1) | 4 | 7.7 (0.9) | 14 | 9.7 (1.1) |
37 | Technicians and related support occupations | 33 | 9.3 (1) | 18 | 8.9 (1.3) | 15 | 9.8 (1.1) |
38 | Records processing occupations | 33 | 9.1 (0.4) | 0 | - | 33 | 9.1 (0.4) |
39 | Secretaries, stenographers, and typists | 21 | 9 (0.6) | 0 | - | 21 | 9 (0.6) |
40 | Engineers, architects and scientists | 29 | 8 (0.6) | 22 | 8 (0.7) | 7 | 8.2 (0.6) |