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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2014 Oct 5;69:181–186. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.08.034

Table 3. Percent of all PA time spent in MVPA1 by location and demographic characteristics, 2008-2009, King County, WA.

all locations home near away

mean (SD) mean (SD) p-value mean (SD) p-value mean (SD) p-value
female 7.4 (7.9) 6.6 (11.3) 0.004 24.3 (19.5) 0.707 10.6 (11.7) 0.004
male 9.0 (8.1) 8.8 (12.6) 23.8 (17.2) 12.0 (12.3)

<40 8.2 (7.8) 9.5 (15.0) <0.001 22.8 (16.6) 0.337 10.0 (8.7) 0.425
40-65 8.3 (8.1) 7.2 (11.0) 24.8 (19.0) 11.2 (11.9)
>65 6.3 (7.9) 5.0 (8.6) 22.4 (20.1) 13.3 (16.6)

non-Hispanic White 8.2 (8.3) 7.3 (12.0) 0.701 25.1 (19.0) 0.006 11.3 (12.3) 0.936
other 7.4 (6.7) 7.8 (11.1) 19.6 (16.4) 10.7 (10.3)

less than college graduate 6.5 (6.0) 6.4 (10.4) 0.016 20.5 (18.1) 0.002 9.3 (10.3) 0.003
college graduate or higher 8.6 (8.6) 7.9 (12.4) 25.4 (18.7) 11.9 (12.5)

<50k 7.9 (8.3) 7.5 (12.1) 0.336 23.2 (18.8) 0.371 12.2 (14.8) 0.592
50-100k 8.0 (7.8) 7.1 (10.9) 24.1 (18.8) 10.4 (9.8)
>100k 8.3 (7.9) 7.8 (13.0) 25.4 (18.0) 11.0 (10.3)

full-time 8.2 (7.9) 7.6 (11.4) <0.001 23.6 (18.6) 0.278 11.1 (11.1) 0.457
part-time 7.6 (6.6) 6.3 (10.6) 25.9 (18.6) 10.5 (11.0)
retired/unemployed 8.1 (9.6) 8.2 (13.9) 23.1 (18.8) 12.2 (14.8)

normal 8.7 (8.5) 7.7 (12.7) 0.942 26.2 (18.4) <0.001 12.6 (12.7) <0.001
overweight 8.4 (8.2) 7.3 (11.7) 23.7 (18.2) 11.3 (11.9)
obese 6.0 (5.9) 7.0 (9.8) 19.3 (19.1) 7.4 (9.0)
1

Percentages refer to the ratio of MVPA to all PA time within a location and demographic class, rather than to the grand total, and therefore do not sum to 100%

Bold indicates significance at the p = 0.007 level.