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. 2017 Dec 13;12(12):e0188736. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188736

Table 1. Participants’ characteristics according to the neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation class.


n = 1154 [n (%)]
Total Class 1
Least deprived
(n = 361)
Class 2
(n = 623)
Class 3
Most deprived
(n = 170)
Pearson chi-square statistic Degrees of freedom p-value
Age 35.35 4 <0.001
18–34 years 78 42 (11.6) 29 (4.7) 7 (4.1)
35–64 years 818 267 (74.0) 427 (68.5) 124 (72.9)
65 or more years 258 52 (14.4) 167 (26.8) 39 (22.9)
Gender 1.31 2 0.519
Female 699 210 (58.2) 383 (61.5) 106 (62.4)
Male 455 151 (41.8) 240 (38.5) 64 (37.6)
Education 155.07 4 <0.001
4 years or less 401 58 (16.1) 234 (37.6) 109 (64.1)
5 to 11 years 384 122 (33.8) 212 (34.0) 50 (29.4)
12 or more years 369 181 (50.1) 177 (28.4) 11 (6.5)
Current smoking behaviour 12.95 2 0.002
Smoker 263 105 (29.1) 119 (19.1) 39 (22.9)
Non-smoker 891 256 (70.9) 504 (80.9) 131 (77.1)
Excessive alcohol intake1 3.19 2 0.203
No 866 283 (78.4) 459 (73.7) 124 (72.9)
Yes 288 78 (21.6) 164 (26.3) 46 (27.1)
Sedentariness2 7.11 2 0.029
No 803 248 (68.7) 450 (72.2) 105 (61.8)
Yes 351 113 (31.3) 173 (27.8) 65 (38.2)
Chronic Disease 17.68 4 0.001
No 443 165 (45.7) 217 (34.8) 61 (35.9)
Yes 710 196 (54.3) 406 (65.2) 108 (63.5)

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1Alcohol intake >15g/day for women and >30g/day for men.

2 Women and men were considered sedentary if they scored below 237 and 270 METs.min/day, respectively.

In bold statistically significant p-values.