Table 4.
Built environment characteristics of non-home-neighborhood walking bouts (N=2,222) compared to those of the walkers’ home neighborhoods (subtraction of built environment characteristic values of non-home-neighborhood walking bouts from those of the walker’s home neighborhood)
Non-home-neighborhood walking bouts | Utilitarian (n=2,029) |
Recreational (n=193) |
All (n=2,222) |
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Mean | 95% CI | Mean | 95% CI | P a | Cohen's d | Mean | 95% CI | |
Residential density [dwelling units/ha] | +0.3 | [−1.2, +1.8] | −4.9 | [−7.3, −2.4] | <.001 | .502 | −0.2 | [−1.6, +1.2] |
Average property value [1,000 USD/unit] | +15.8 | [+5.2, +26.4] | +75.2 | [+48.1, +102.4] | <.001 | .519 | +21.5 | [+11.2, +31.9] |
Job density [jobs/ha] | +87.6 | [+67.4, +107.8] | +22.0 | [−6.2, +50.3] | <.001 | .520 | +79.1 | [+60.3, +98.0] |
Street intersection density [count/km2] | +3.0 | [−1.2, +7.3] | −15.0 | [−22.3, −7.6] | <.001 | .613 | +1.1 | [−2.9, +5.1] |
Area of NCs b [%] | +0.2 | [−1.1, +1.6] | −2.9 | [−5.3, −0.5] | <.001 | .330 | +0.0 | [−1.3, +1.3] |
Area of parks/trails [%] | +0.7 | [−0.1, +1.6] | +8.3 | [+5.3, +11.4] | <.001 | .851 | +1.4 | [+0.5, +2.2] |
Average slope in degree [°] | −0.6 | [−0.8, −0.5] | −0.2 | [−0.5, +0.1] | .005 | .392 | −0.6 | [−0.7, −0.5] |
P-value of the group difference between the subtractions of utilitarian walking bouts and the subtractions of recreational walking bouts, after adjusting a nested structure of walking bouts within participants.
Neighborhood Center (NC), mixed-use areas with routine destination, defined as a minimum convex hull polygon delineated by at least one of each grocery/supermarket(s), retail(s), and restaurant(s) parcels clustered within 50m of each other (Lee and Moudon, 2006a).
95%CI’s not containing 0’s are shown in bold.