Table 3.

Description of sample participating in park interviews and responses by whether or not they used the park to walk/watch the dog (among NC and PA parks; n=600)

	Overall		Missing	Walk/ Watch Dog	Other	p value*	Cramer’s V
	n	%	n	%	%
Overall	600	100.0	0	27.5	72.5
Gender			0			0.86	0.01
Female	338	56.3		55.8	56.6
Male	262	43.7		44.2	43.5
Age Group			0			0.31	0.06
18–35	289	48.2		52.1	46.7
36–59	270	45.0		40.0	46.9
>=60	41	6.8		7.9	6.4
Race-ethnicity						0.002	0.13
Non-Hispanic White	439	73.2	0	81.8	69.9
African American	79	13.2		9.7	14.5
Hispanic	30	5.0		4.2	5.3
Other	52	8.7		4.2	10.3
Health status (compared to fair/poor)						0.89	0.01
Excellent/very good/good	544	91.1	3	90.9	91.2
Body mass index			56			0.004	0.14
Under or normal weight	318	58.5		60.5	57.7
Overweight	171	31.4		23.7	34.4
Obese	55	10.1		15.8	7.9
How often you come to this park			0
Daily	97	16.2		27.9	11.7	<0.0001	0.22
A few times a week	206	34.3		37.6	33.1
Once per week or more	297	49.5		34.6	55.2
On a typical day when you visit the park, how long do you stay							0.20
<=1 hour	247	41.2	0	53.3	36.6	<0.0001
>1 hour but <2 hours	241	40.2		39.4	40.6
>=2 hours	111	18.5		7.3	22.8
Last time you went to the park, how did you get there							0.02
Walked	156	26.2	5	27.4	25.8	0.68
Accompanied by anyone						<0.0001	0.41
Alone	224	37.5	2	69.9	25.3
Euclidean distance from home to park			71			0.67	0.07
0–0.25 miles	65	12.3		11.1	12.8
>0.25–0.50 miles	58	11.0		11.8	10.6
>0.50–1.0 miles	102	19.3		22.9	17.8
>1.0–2.0 miles	93	17.6		15.7	18.4
>2.0 miles	211	39.9		38.6	40.4
Park			0			<0.0001	0.31
PA park 1	155	25.8		23.6	26.7
NC park 1	146	24.3		17.0	27.1
NC park 2	149	24.8		46.1	16.8
NC park 3	150	25.0		13.3	29.4

^*p value is based on a chi-squared test