{"id":7505,"date":"2023-11-17T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:40:35","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-and-adolescents-aged-4-17-years-who-practiced-yoga-during-the-past-12-months-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/11\/17\/7505\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged 4\u201317 Years Who Practiced Yoga During the Past 12 Months, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/mm7246a6-F.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7506\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/mm7246a6-F-300x152.gif\" alt=\"QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged 4\u201317 Years Who Practiced Yoga During the Past 12 Months,\u2020 by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2022\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>In 2022, 12.3% of children and adolescents aged 4\u201317 years had practiced yoga in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Children and adolescents aged 4\u201311 years were more likely to have practiced yoga than those aged 12\u201317 years (14.7% versus 9.2%).<\/p>\n<p>The declining percentages with age were found for both males and females: 10.4% versus 5.3% among males, and 19.3% versus 13.3% among females.<\/p>\n<p>Males were less likely than females to have practiced yoga in both age groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2022.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7246a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7246a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, 12.3% of children and adolescents aged 4\u201317 years had practiced yoga in the past 12 months. Children and adolescents aged 4\u201311 years were more likely to have practiced yoga than those aged 12\u201317 years (14.7% versus 9.2%). The declining percentages with age were found for both males and females: 10.4% versus 5.3% among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53770,14289,53746,63819],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}