Development of the Penn Healthy Diet screener with reference to adult dietary intake data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Table 4 Demographic characteristics of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–18 adult participants

Variable	Label	Number	Mean	Std Error of Mean	95% CL for Mean
Age	Age in years at screening	4863	47.82	0.63	46.48	49.16
Income	Ratio of family income to poverty	4291	3.04	0.06	2.91	3.17
BMI	Body Mass Index (kg/m**2)	4806	29.78	0.28	29.19	30.37
Sex	Number	Weighted Frequency		Row Percent
Male	2365	116,805,752		48.07
Female	2498	126,187,321		51.93
Self-reported racial/ethnic identity
Mexican American	648	22,046,665		9.07
Other Hispanic	450	17,006,139		6.99
Non-Hispanic White	1735	150,362,288		61.88
Non-Hispanic Black	1150	28,079,784		11.56
Non-Hispanic Asian	635	14,177,595		5.83
Other Race - Including Multi-Racial	245	11,320,602		4.66
Total	4863	242,993,073		100.0000

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