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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 19.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Sep 3;69(9):1296–1305. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.07.019

Table 3.

Unconditional cross-classified multilevel model estimates of between level-2 units variance in the number of 10-minute episodes of walking among 2716 residents of Montreal, Canada.

Variance partitioning Walking for any motive Utilitarian walking Recreational walking
Estimated variance
 Between individuals 2.79 4.89 5.21
 Between zones 0.016 (ns)a 0.121 (ns) 0.005 (ns)
 Between census tracts 0.031 (p < 0.05) 0.068 (p < 0.05) 0.006 (ns)
% Variation attributable to level-2 units (zones and census tracts) 1.66 3.72 0.21
% Variation across level-2 units attributable to zones 34.04 64.02 45.45
% Variation across level-2 units attributable to census tracts 65.96 35.98 54.55
a

ns, Non-significant.