Table 4.

Descriptive statistics for perceived environmental barriers

	All	Traditional neighbourhoods	Early conventional suburban neighbourhoods	Late conventional suburban neighbourhoods	Difference (p-value)
Accessibility	2.69 (0.97)	2.70 (0.80)	2.82 (0.99)	2.31 (0.96)	<0.001***
Inconvenient access to a store
Inconvenient access to a park or playground
No access to public transportation
No place worth walking to
Traffic safety	2.37 (0.82)	2.93 (0.87)	2.35 (0.71)	1.87 (0.68)	<0.001***
High vehicle traffic
Poorly maintained sidewalk or no sidewalks
Not well lighted at night
Too many street intersections
No safe route for walking
Aesthetics	2.15 (0.64)	2.16 (0.53)	2.22 (0.62)	1.96 (0.74)	0.011*
Poorly maintained properties
No large trees to provide shade
Lack of natural landscape features such as lakes, ponds, forests
Many of the homes look the same
No interesting things to see
Small front yards
Social environment	1.89 (0.65)	2.23 (0.62)	1.83 (0.60)	1.68 (0.66)	<0.001***
Crime
Neighbours are not physically active
Infrequent interaction with neighbours
Not many others walking around
Number of respondents	289	62	165	62

Note:

The number refers to the mean of each variable in its corresponding neighbourhood(s). Standard errors are in parentheses. The difference refers to whether each variable is statistically significant across the three types of neighbourhoods, using the one-way ANOVA.

^*p≤0.05;

^**p≤0.01;

^***p≤0.001.