Table 1. free-time physical activity according to socio-demographic and health variables in teachers. Londrina, State of Paraná, Brazil, 2012–2013.
| Variable | n | free-time physical activity | ||||
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| % | Inactivea (%) | Insufficientb (%) | Activec (%) | pd | ||
| Total | 978 | 100 | 55.7 | 16.2 | 28.1 | |
| Gender | 0.002 | |||||
| Female | 670 | 68.5 | 59.1 | 17.0 | 23.9 | |
| Male | 308 | 31.5 | 48.4 | 14.3 | 37.3 | |
| Age group (years) | 0.665 | |||||
| < 30 | 130 | 13.3 | 57.7 | 12.3 | 30.0 | |
| 30–39 | 295 | 30.2 | 59.0 | 12.9 | 28.1 | |
| 40–49 | 330 | 33.7 | 53.3 | 17.9 | 28.8 | |
| 50–59 | 183 | 18.7 | 55.2 | 19.1 | 25.7 | |
| > 59 | 40 | 4.1 | 47.5 | 25.0 | 27.5 | |
| Monthly family income (R$)e,f | 0.071 | |||||
| < 3,001.00 | 241 | 24.9 | 59.8 | 13.3 | 27.0 | |
| 3,001.00 to 5,000.00 | 335 | 34.6 | 56.4 | 16.4 | 27.2 | |
| 5,001.00 to 7,000.00 | 239 | 24.7 | 54.8 | 17.6 | 27.6 | |
| > 7,000.00 | 154 | 15.9 | 49.4 | 16.9 | 33.8 | |
| Perceived healthf | ||||||
| Very good/Excellent | 346 | 36.4 | 47.4 | 16.5 | 36.1 | <0.001 |
| Good | 557 | 58.6 | 60.1 | 16.2 | 23.7 | |
| Bad/Very bad | 47 | 4.9 | 63.8 | 14.9 | 21.3 | |
| Body mass index (kg/m2)f | ||||||
| > 30.0 | 163 | 16.8 | 65.0 | 18.4 | 16.6 | 0.003 |
| 25.0–29.9 | 342 | 35.2 | 54.1 | 16.4 | 29.5 | |
| < 25.0 | 466 | 48.0 | 53.2 | 15.5 | 31.3 | |
| Chronic painf | ||||||
| Yes | 411 | 42.2 | 60.3 | 16.3 | 23.4 | 0.014 |
| No | 562 | 57.8 | 52.3 | 16.0 | 31.7 | |
a Inactive in free-time = zero to 10 minutes per week.
a Insufficiently active in free-time = 11 to 149 minutes per week.
a Sufficiently active in free-time = 150 minutes or more of physical activity per week.
d Chi-square test.
3 Average value of Real in the period of data collection: US$1.00 = R$2.00.
f Total number of participants was lower than 978 because of missing information for the respective variable.