The Neighborhood Map of U.S. Obesity shows the estimated pct of the adult population that is fat inside each 250m grid jail mobile telephone inwards the United States. Grid cells on the map are colored past times the pct of adults who are estimated to move 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 guess 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 convey in addition to so been used alongside demographic information to attach a BMI value to every somebody aged 20 years or over inwards the United States. It is thus of import to greenback that the map estimates obesity based on statistical models in addition to the demographics of each grid cell.
