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. 2011 Oct 10;8:110. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-8-110

Table 3.

Daily activity-related energy expenditure as a proportion (mean [SD]; median (IQR)) of total energy expenditure by employment statusab.

Domains of activities

Men (N = 6,131) Women (N = 9,452)
Employment status N Leisure Occupation House All domains N Leisure Occupation Household All domains
Full-time 4614 7.2 [6.4] 25.9 [12.2] 6.2 [4.8] 39.6 [10.4] 4123 6.4 [5.8] 20.7 [9.4] 11.7 [6.2] 39.0 [9.3]
5.6 (8.7) 24.4 (19.2) 5.2 (5.9) 39.8 (15.0) 4.8 (7.2) 19.1 (13.2) 10.5 (7.3) 38.6 (13.1)
Part-time 382 7.4 [7.5] 20.1 [12.2] 7.7 [6.2] 35.5 [10.8] 2166 6.5 [5.7] 14.8 [9.4] 15.4 [7.7] 36.8 [9.6]
5.4 (8.5) 18.3 (18.4) 6.2 (7.0) 35.0 (14.2) 5.0 (7.0) 13.3 (13.2) 13.8 (8.8) 36.5 (13.2)
Not employed/homemaker/student/other 372 7.2 [7.2] 19.7 [16.4] 8.8 [7.4] 35.9 [13.6] 1855 6.5 [6.1] 7.2 [10.7] 21.3 [10.7] 35.0 [11.6]
5.0 (9.8) 17.7 (29.5) 7.2 (9.3) 37.1 (20.2) 4.9 (7.8) 1.9 (10.5) 19.6 (14.0) 34.6 (16.2)
Retired 763 10.8 [8.5] 6.5 [10.6] 11.6 [8.7] 28.9 [11.8] 1308 7.7 [6.7] 4.0 [7.3] 18.9 [8.7] 30.7 [10.4]
9.1 (11.9) 0.9 (9.0) 9.6 (11.8) 28.4 (15.3) 5.9 (8.5) 0.7 (4.6) 17.7 (10.7) 30.0 (13.4)
Kruskal-Wallis rank sum tests P<.001 P<.001 P<.001 P<.001 P<.001 P<.001

a Includes people recruited in the first six recruitment waves (February 2001-January 2005) but excludes people who did not return a PYTPAQ (n = 2,405), pregnant women (n = 31), people who were recruited as 'second in household' in the first recruitment wav e (n = 344), people with prior history of cancer (n = 33), and people with missing data on body weight or height (n = 39). Note: 3 men and 5 women had missing data on employment status.

b Differences in median or distribution shape between employment status groups for each domain were compared by using Kruskal-Wallis rank sum tests and were statistically significant (P<.001), Statistical significance of the Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test in each domain can be interpreted as follows: at least one median or distribution shape of the daily activity-related energy expenditure in a particular employment status group significantly differed from another median or distribution shape in another employment status group.