Table 1.
Characteristics of participants by socio-demographic, physical activity and environmental variables
| Men (n = 6134) | Women (n = 7793) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occasions of leisure cycling | Occasions of commuter cycling | Occasions of leisure cycling | Occasions of commuter cycling | |||||
| None | Any | None | Any | None | Any | None | Any | |
| Percentage of Subjects | 80.1 | 19.9 | 96.2 | 3.8 | 85.1 | 14.9 | 95.7 | 4.3 |
| Age | ||||||||
| 41-50 years of age | 63.9 | 36.1* | 91.4 | 8.6* | 70.1 | 29.9* | 91.5 | 8.5* |
| 51- 60 years of age | 73.0 | 27.0 | 93.4 | 6.6 | 80.4 | 19.6 | 93.2 | 6.8 |
| 61-70 years of age | 82.7 | 17.3 | 97.6 | 2.4 | 893. | 10.7 | 97.9 | 2.1 |
| 71-80 years of age | 91.6 | 8.4 | 99.5 | 0.5 | 95.5 | 4.5 | 99.4 | 0.6 |
| Social status | ||||||||
| Professional | 75.4 | 24.6* | 95.0 | 5.0* | 82.8 | 17.2* | 95.2 | 4.8* |
| Managerial & Tech. | 80.0 | 20.0 | 97.7 | 2.3 | 84.0 | 16.0 | 97.0 | 3.0 |
| Skilled non-manual | 80.6 | 19.4 | 97.1 | 2.9 | 88.9 | 11.1 | 97.3 | 2.7 |
| Skilled manual | 80.1 | 19.9 | 95.1 | 4.9 | 83.9 | 16.1 | 94.9 | 5.1 |
| Partly skilled | 82.2 | 17.8 | 93.3 | 6.7 | 85.5 | 14.5 | 92.4 | 7.6 |
| Unskilled | 85.1 | 14.9 | 94.2 | 5.8 | 84.2 | 15.8 | 91.0 | 9.0 |
| Educational qualifications | ||||||||
| Degree or higher | 76.1 | 23.9* | 95.9 | 4.1 | 80.4 | 19.6* | 95.3 | 4.7 |
| Any qualifications | 78.9 | 21.1 | 96.4 | 3.6 | 83.3 | 16.7 | 96.3 | 3.7 |
| No qualifications | 85.0 | 15.0 | 95.7 | 4.3 | 88.2 | 11.8 | 95.5 | 4.5 |
| Car ownership | ||||||||
| Yes | 80.7 | 19.3* | 97.3 | 2.7* | 85.0 | 15.0 | 97.0 | 3.0* |
| No | 75.7 | 24.3 | 88.2 | 11.8 | 85.2 | 14.8 | 91.0 | 9.0 |
| Townsend index | ||||||||
| Quintile 1 (most affluent) | 80.2 | 19.8 | 97.8 | 2.2* | 86.2 | 13.8* | 96.9 | 3.1* |
| Quintile 2 | 79.3 | 20.7 | 96.3 | 3.7 | 86.4 | 13.6 | 97.1 | 2.9 |
| Quintile 3 | 78.6 | 21.4 | 96.4 | 3.6 | 82.2 | 17.8 | 95.7 | 4.3 |
| Quintile 4 | 80.5 | 19.5 | 96.3 | 3.7 | 83.9 | 16.1 | 95.9 | 4.1 |
| Quintile 5 (most deprived) | 81.9 | 18.1 | 93.9 | 6.1 | 86.5 | 13.5 | 93.1 | 6.9 |
| Self-reported health | ||||||||
| With condition | 82.3 | 17.7* | 97.4 | 2.6* | 86.8 | 13.2* | 96.1 | 3.9 |
| Without condition | 78.4 | 21.6 | 95.2 | 4.8 | 83.0 | 17.0 | 95.4 | 4.6 |
* Signifies significant trend across variable categories at P < .05.