New The U.S. Obesity Map
January 16, 2019
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The Neighborhood Map of U.S. Obesity shows the estimated percent of the adult population that is fat inside each 250m grid jail cellular telephone inwards the United States. Grid cells on the map are colored past times the percent of adults who are estimated to hold upwards fat inwards that area.
The obesity information for the map is surmised from the National Health in addition to Nutrition Examination Survey. Using the results of the survey it is possible to calculate statistical models that gauge the hateful Body Mass Index in addition to shape of the BMI distribution across age, gender, race, Hispanic origin, in addition to educational attainment.
These statistical models accept so been used amongst demographic information to attach a BMI value to every soul aged 20 years or over inwards the United States. It is so of import to Federal Reserve annotation that the map estimates obesity based on statistical models in addition to the demographics of each grid cell.