Student Weight Status Category Reporting Results: Beginning 2019
The Student Weight Status Category Reporting System (SWSCR) collects weight status category data (underweight, healthy weight, overweight or obese, based on BMI-for-age percentile) on children and adolescents attending public school in New York State, outside New York City.
The dataset includes separate estimates of the percent of students that are overweight, obese and overweight or obese for all reportable grades within the county and/or region and by grade groups (elementary and middle/high). The rates of overweight and obesity reported are percentages based on counts of students in selected grades (Pre-K, K, 1, 3, 5, & 7, 9, 11) reported to the NYSDOH. District, county, regional and statewide estimates are provided biennially. Data can be filtered by a variety of variables within the dataset and exported into various formats for additional analyses. Half of the public schools in New York State, exclusive of New York City, are required to report Student Weight Status data each year. It takes two years to collect a full cycle of data for all eligible school districts in the state.
Beginning in 2010, all data reported through the Student Weight Status Category Reporting System have been released on the Health Data New York website. Prior to 2010, data from SWSCR were released through printable report and continue to be incorporated into reports released to the public. These reports are accessible through web-links posted on this page.
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on
this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
SELECT *
FROM \"health-data-ny-gov/student-weight-status-category-reporting-results-gu64-e8z7\".\"student_weight_status_category_reporting_results\"
LIMIT 100
"}
EOFSee the Splitgraph documentation
for more information.
