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About this objective
Data
National baseline: 25.8 percent of children aged 6 to 13 years met the current aerobic physical activity guideline in 2016-17
National target: 30.3 percent
Numerator
Number of children aged 6 to 13 years who exercised, played a sport, or participated in physical activity for at least 60 minutes every day during the past week.
Denominator
Number of children aged 6 to 13 years.
National target-setting method
Percentage point improvement
National target-setting method details
Percentage point improvement from the baseline using Cohen's h effect size of 0.10.
National target-setting method justification
Trend data were not available for this objective. A percentage point improvement was calculated using Cohen's h effect size of 0.1. This method was used because it was a statistically significant improvement from the baseline and the Healthy People 2030 Workgroup Subject Matter Experts expected the data to move in the desired direction during the next decade.
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
(For additional information, please visit the data source page linked above.)
From the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health:
Numerator:
DURING THE PAST WEEK, on how many days did this child exercise, play a sport, or participate in physical activity for at least 60 minutes?- 0 days
- 1-3 days
- 4-6 days
- Every day
History
Revision History
Revised.
In 2025, the baseline and follow up data points were revised due to changes in imputation and weighting by race and ethnicity methods. The original baseline was changed from 25.9 to 25.8 percent. The target was adjusted from 30.4 to 30.3 percent to reflect the revised baseline using the original target-setting method.
Footnotes
1. Effect size h=0.1 was chosen to correspond with 10% improvement from a baseline of 50%.
