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Table 4 Ranking for daily TAC 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

TAC M (SE)

Men n

TAC M (SE)

Women n

TAC M (SE)

1

Related agricultural, forestry, and fishing

21

485,767 (29,836)

21

485,767 (29,836)

0

-

2

Construction laborers

9

471,863 (54,189)

9

471,863 (54,189)

0

-

3

Cleaning and building service occupations

23

450,084 (30,591)

15

483,758 (51,323)

8

397,142 (79,167)

4

Farm operators, managers, and supervisors

5

436,923 (295.8)

4

448,050 (4261)

1

329,570 (0)

5

Farm and nursery workers

6

434,533 (72,549)

5

479,218 (61,203)

1

168,400 (0)

6

Freight, stock, and material movers (hand)

14

425,193 (22,221)

11

425,427 (28,972)

3

424,461 (5927)

7

Construction trades

58

424,700 (19,785)

57

426,154 (20,224)

1

256,600 (0)

8

Other helpers, cleaners, packagers, laborers

18

422,397 (43,719)

12

494,944 (51,212)

6

301,419 (8065)

9

Textile, apparel, furnishings machine operators

8

389,395 (72,764)

3

430,829 (54,246)

5

378,150 (90,086)

10

Other transportation and material moving

21

363,428 (19,964)

20

369,009 (20,866)

1

279,710 (0)

11

Motor vehicle operators

61

358,903 (21,335)

59

365,130 (21,238)

2

219,442 (61,238)

12

Other mechanics and repairers

37

358,301 (15,423)

37

358,301 (15,423)

0

-

13

Machine operators, assorted materials

22

356,234 (37,952)

17

386,340 (35,424)

5

214,122 (22,970)

14

Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations

27

346,590 (35,260)

19

371,350 (43,575)

8

291,278 (35,530)

15

Material recording, scheduling, distributing clerks

19

334,085 (60,295)

12

358,570 (85,201)

7

272,997 (41,793)

16

Waiters and waitresses

7

332,931 (32,540)

2

503,971 (73,138)

5

304,425 (41,551)

17

Fabricators, assemblers, inspectors, and samplers

28

332,848 (17,945)

16

378,576 (28,778)

12

248,454 (15,706)

18

Extractive and precision production occupations

47

327,915 (17,333)

38

336,678 (20,915)

9

295,118 (60,034)

19

Vehicle and mobile equip. mechanics, repairers

15

320,773 (40,082)

15

320,773 (40,082)

0

-

20

Private household occupations

9

320,474 (84,755)

0

-

9

320,474 (84,755)

21

Sales workers, retail and personal services

26

314,124 (18,394)

12

339,663 (23,099)

14

291,893 (21,422)

22

Laborers, except construction

3

305,925 (71,578)

1

174,290 (0)

2

409,405 (2793)

23

Sales reps., finance, business, & commodities

29

303,648 (23,216)

16

343,308 (42,571)

13

237,490 (17,916)

24

Management related occupations

49

299,487 (16,539)

23

335,330 (28,517)

26

258,586 (14,012)

25

Cooks

24

298,019 (19,802)

13

314,980 (31,615)

11

262,556 (18,198)

26

Technicians and related support occupations

33

296,734 (17,082)

18

279,416 (22,874)

15

315,969 (30,724)

27

Writers, artists, entertainers, and athletes

15

296,033 (30,519)

9

342,968 (41,433)

6

229,124 (22,602)

28

Engineers, architects and scientists

29

294,668 (33,219)

22

300,829 (38,693)

7

267,305 (28,429)

29

Executive, administrators, and managers

112

293,657 (10,403)

67

325,623 (12,281)

45

239,623 (15,811)

30

Teachers

40

292,993 (23,268)

11

373,185 (44,851)

29

267,744 (23,133)

31

Health service occupations

38

290,882 (22,132)

7

330,900 (35,382)

31

280,704 (19,070)

32

Miscellaneous food preparation and service

14

288,423 (20,262)

6

294,952 (22,086)

8

285,417 (30,348)

33

Health diagnosing, assessing and treating

42

284,889 (13,572)

8

290,655 (22,823)

34

283,369 (16,371)

34

Protective service occupations

13

281,516 (33,814)

10

278,523 (39,317)

3

298,215 (22,129)

35

Information clerks

18

280,789 (44,557)

4

215,013 (19,044)

14

291,417 (50,557)

36

Other professional specialty occupations

39

279,639 (16,847)

16

296,210 (31,331)

23

262,859 (17,062)

37

Miscellaneous administrative support occupations

65

277,748 (14,067)

16

361,957 (46,240)

49

253,329 (16,315)

38

Personal service occupations

14

246,259 (19,502)

3

316,398 (28,738)

11

215,592 (12,896)

39

Records processing occupations

33

243,927 (11,345)

0

-

33

243,927 (11,345)

40

Secretaries, stenographers, and typists

21

223,662 (15,790)

0

-

21

223,662 (15,790)

  1. TAC total activity counts, M mean, SE standard error