Table 2. Free-time physical activity according to occupational variables in teachers. Londrina, State of Paraná, Brazil, 2012–2013.
| Variable | N | Free-time physical activity | ||||
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| % | Inactivea (%) | Insufficientb (%) | Activec (%) | pd | ||
| Time working in the profession (years)e | 0.513 | |||||
| < 5 | 174 | 17.8 | 56.9 | 14.4 | 28.7 | |
| 5–9 | 218 | 22.3 | 56.9 | 15.6 | 27.5 | |
| 10–19 | 287 | 29.3 | 59.2 | 12.2 | 28.6 | |
| ≥ 20 | 299 | 30.6 | 50.8 | 21.4 | 27.8 | |
| Number of shifts | 0.676 | |||||
| 1 | 188 | 19.2 | 56.9 | 17.6 | 25.5 | |
| 2 | 628 | 64.2 | 55.3 | 15.9 | 28.8 | |
| 3 | 162 | 16.6 | 56.2 | 15.4 | 28.4 | |
| Type of employment | 0.024 | |||||
| Statutory | 306 | 31.3 | 52.8 | 17.0 | 30.2 | |
| Temporary | 672 | 68.7 | 62.1 | 14.4 | 23.5 | |
| Working hours as a teacher (hours/week) | 0.359 | |||||
| < 21 | 163 | 16.7 | 58.3 | 12.3 | 29.4 | |
| 21–40 | 611 | 62.5 | 55.8 | 17.8 | 26.4 | |
| > 40 | 204 | 20.9 | 53.4 | 14.2 | 32.4 | |
| Subject taught | 0.001 | |||||
| Other | 893 | 91.3 | 57.2 | 16.2 | 26.5 | |
| Physical Education | 85 | 8.7 | 40.0 | 15.3 | 44.7 | |
| Perception of balance between personal and professional life | 0.013 | |||||
| Good/Excellent | 704 | 72.0 | 53.3 | 16.1 | 30.7 | |
| Bad/Regular | 274 | 28.0 | 62.0 | 16.4 | 21.5 | |
| Perception of how long standing affects the work | 0.007 | |||||
| Does not affect | 148 | 15.1 | 44.6 | 17.6 | 37.8 | |
| Affects | 830 | 84.9 | 57.7 | 15.9 | 26.4 | |
| Perception of the current ability to work in relation to physical requirementse | 0.001 | |||||
| Good/Very good | 588 | 60.2 | 53.2 | 13.8 | 33.0 | |
| Moderate | 324 | 33.2 | 58.0 | 20.1 | 21.9 | |
| Low/Very low | 65 | 6.7 | 66.2 | 18.5 | 15.4 | |
| Frequency that they consider having enough time to fulfill all the worke | 0.255 | |||||
| Frequently | 166 | 17.5 | 50.6 | 19.3 | 30.1 | |
| Sometimes | 442 | 46.5 | 55.9 | 16.1 | 28.1 | |
| Never or almost never/Rarely | 342 | 36 | 57.6 | 15.2 | 27.2 | |
| Frequency that they feel exhausted at the end of the workdaye | 0.037 | |||||
| Never/A few times a year | 134 | 14.1 | 50.7 | 17.2 | 32.1 | |
| A few times a month | 200 | 21.1 | 49.5 | 19.5 | 31.0 | |
| A few times a week/Daily | 613 | 64.7 | 58.6 | 15.0 | 26.4 | |
| Frequency that they feel exhausted when getting up after a night’s sleep to face a workdaye | 0.071 | |||||
| Never/A few times a year | 386 | 40.7 | 52.1 | 17.1 | 30.8 | |
| A few times a month | 254 | 26.8 | 57.9 | 14.2 | 28.0 | |
| A few times a week/Daily | 308 | 32.5 | 58.1 | 16.9 | 25.0 | |
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.
e Total number of participants was lower than 978 because of missing information for the respective variable.