Table 5 Ranking for activity counts/minute by occupational category and by sex: NHANES 2003–2004 (n = 1112)

1

Related agricultural, forestry, and fishing

21

21

567.4 (34.4)

0

2

Construction laborers

9

9

551.4 (47)

0

3

Farm and nursery workers

6

5

551.6 (68.1)

1

4

Cleaning and building service occupations

23

15

530.9 (49.6)

8

5

Construction trades

58

57

489.6 (20.4)

1

6

Other helpers, cleaners, packagers, laborers

18

12

554 (52.4)

6

7

Farm operators, managers, and supervisors

5

4

491.6 (17.5)

1

8

Freight, stock, and material movers (hand)

14

11

457 (51.2)

3

9

Textile, apparel, furnishings machine operators

8

3

518.6 (67.4)

5

10

Other mechanics and repairers

37

37

410.6 (19.7)

0

11

Machine operators, assorted materials

22

17

437.7 (29.6)

5

12

Other transportation and material moving

21

20

407.4 (20.4)

1

13

Waiters and waitresses

7

2

598.4 (78.5)

5

14

Motor vehicle operators

61

59

407.3 (28.7)

2

15

Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations

27

19

416.9 (46)

8

16

Private household occupations

9

0

-

9

17

Material recording, scheduling, distributing clerks

19

12

426.5 (105.6)

7

18

Fabricators, assemblers, inspectors, and samplers

28

16

435.2 (46.7)

12

19

Vehicle and mobile equip. mechanics, repairers

15

15

374.5 (42)

0

20

Extractive and precision production occupations

47

38

367.3 (15.1)

9

21

Sales workers, retail and personal services

26

12

383 (21.8)

14

22

Miscellaneous food preparation and service

14

6

351.6 (39.2)

8

23

Sales reps., finance, business, & commodities

29

16

387.8 (45.1)

13

24

Cooks

24

13

354.3 (31)

11

25

Health service occupations

38

7

385.8 (41.2)

31

26

Laborers, except construction

3

1

219.4 (0)

2

27

Technicians and related support occupations

33

18

315.3 (26.2)

15

28

Management related occupations

49

23

374.5 (25.8)

26

29

Executive, administrators, and managers

112

67

370.4 (13.5)

45

30

Writers, artists, entertainers, and athletes

15

9

385 (44.7)

6

31

Engineers, architects and scientists

29

22

336.6 (42.1)

7

32

Teachers

40

11

418.5 (61.7)

29

33

Protective service occupations

13

10

326.7 (47)

3

34

Health diagnosing, assessing and treating

42

8

348.2 (27.2)

34

35

Miscellaneous administrative support occupations

65

16

400.1 (56.1)

49

36

Other professional specialty occupations

39

16

336.2 (37.8)

23

37

Information clerks

18

4

262.9 (4.4)

14

38

Personal service occupations

14

3

365.3 (30.7)

11

39

Records processing occupations

33

0

-

33

40

Secretaries, stenographers, and typists

21

0

-

21