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National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Study (NYPANS)

The National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Study (NYPANS) was conducted in 2010 with three main purposes:

  1. To provide nationally representative data on behaviors and behavioral determinants related to nutrition and physical activity among high school students
  2. To provide data to help improve the clarity and strengthen the validity of questions on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
  3. To understand the associations among behaviors and behavioral determinants related to physical activity and nutrition and their association with body mass index

The study included three measures:

  1. A paper-and-pencil questionnaire [pdf 170K] administered to a nationally representative sample of students attending public and private schools in grades 9–12
  2. Standardized protocol to measure height and weight in students completing the questionnaire
  3. Telephone interviews to measure 24-hour dietary recalls among a subsample of students

Data & Documentation

The Data User’s Manual [pdf 3.3M] includes a sample description, procedures for editing the data, descriptions of how the variables were calculated, analysis software technical notes, and four codebooks: one for the survey and height/weight measurements, and three for the 24-hour dietary recall interview data files. Each data file is available in SAS, SPSS, and Access.


Data Files

  SAS SPSS Access
Survey and Height/Weight: Contains data from the paper and pencil questionnaire and the height and weight measurements.
(Use of the Survey SAS dataset also requires the Survey format library [sas7bcat 165K].)
NYPANS2010 sas7bdat 4.6M sav 16.2M mdb 11.6M
24-Hour Dietary Recall Interviews
(Use of the 24-Hour SAS dataset also requires the 24-Hour format library [sas7bcat 25M].)
Food Group Serving Count: Contains food group serving counts at the whole food level (FGSCFood), the meal or eating occasion level (FGSCMeal), and the record level (FGSCRecord).
FGSCFood sas7bdat 42.4M sav 41.8M mdb 53.1M
FGSCMeal sas7bat 13.8M sav 13M mdb 19.1M
FGSCRecord sas7bat 3.9M sav 3.7M mdb 5.5M
Nutritional Analysis: Contains nutrient data at the whole food level (Food), the meal or eating occasion level (Meal), the component/ingredient level (Component), and the record level (Record).
Food sas7bat 70.8M sav 62.4M mdb 53.1M
Component sas7bat 17.9M sav 17.7M mdb 18.8M
Meal sas7bat 16.9M sav 16M mdb 19.1M
Record sas7bat 6.1M sav 5.7M mdb 5.4M
One Record: Contains the same data as FGSCRecord, but while FGSCRecord contains 1 record per recall occasion, One_Record contains 1 record per respondent.
One_Record sas7bat 7.3M sav 6M mdb 9.3M


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