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. 2015 Mar 16;12(3):3152–3173. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120303152

Table 1.

Sample characteristics of the 24 South Asian women participating in semi-structured interviews.

1 Ethnicity, Age BMI Category * Body Fat % Waist Circumference + IMD Quintile ++ Self-Reported Language Ability Mean MVPA/Day # Mean Light Intensity PA/Day # Mean ST/Day #
(A) Pakistani, 56 Obese 61.06 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 20.07 21.16 567.11
(B) Pakistani, 38 Obese 49.64 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 12.45 24.68 678.9
(C) fiBangladeshi, 52 Obese 53.45 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 64.43 25.84 487.36
(D) Pakistani, 54 Obese 51.31 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 16.86 26.81 603.27
(E) Bangladeshi, 55 Obese 51.63 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 14.32 27.33 605.36
(F) Pakistani, 55 Obese 56.70 Unhealthy 1 Non-fluent in English 11.50 28.82 565.6
(G) Bangladeshi, 63 Overweight 49.48 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 46.42 30.56 437.43
(H) Pakistani, 56 Obese 58.08 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 30.90 33.19 467.39
(I) Pakistani, 66 Obese 53.00 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 32.96 30.24 531.52
(J) Bangladeshi, 67 Obese 61.50 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 7.87 31.06 468.00
(K) Pakistani, 58 Overweight 49.51 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 6.80 58.11 475.21
(L) Pakistani, 60 Obese 56.93 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 37.00 20.12 483.2
(M) Pakistani, 58 Obese 55.76 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 32.54 19.31 499.51
(N) Bangladeshi, 46 Obese 56.66 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 6.32 5.31 643.26
(O) Bangladeshi, 38 Obese 54.54 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 6.50 24.17 616.08
(P) Pakistani, 52 Obese 55.23 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 26.45 22.88 557.34
(Q) Bangladeshi, 62 Obese 57.29 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 17.11 25.17 492.34
(R) Pakistani, 61 Overweight 48.61 Unhealthy 2 Fluent 25.32 12.25 567.83
(S) Bangladeshi, 36 Obese 57.06 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 9.93 9.23 642.27
(T) Bangladeshi, 61 Obese 54.67 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 22.43 21.38 563.12
(U) Pakistani, 60 Obese 53.26 Unhealthy 1 Fluent 19.67 20.11 598.93
(V) Pakistani, 39 Obese 57.10 Unhealthy 2 Non-fluent in English 20.67 17.56 533.8
(W)Bangladeshi, 38 Normal 40.56 Healthy 2 Non-fluent in English 8.33 16.87 622.64
(X) Bangladeshi, 36 Normal 41.23 Healthy 2 Non-fluent in English 10.58 24.29 602.39

1 Participant identification code, * BMI categories as defined by the WHO [18]; + Healthy waist circumference ≤80 cm, unhealthy ≥81 cm; ++ Based on IMD ranks for Wales, 1 = Most deprived, 2 = nearly most deprived [15]; # reported in minutes.