Table 1.
Basic characteristics for participants of full-time jobs (n=345)
| All participants | Occupational activity type | Group differences* | ||||
| Sitting a | Standing b | Walkingc | Physical labourd | |||
| N | 345 | 239 (69.3) | 47 (13.6) | 48 (13.9) | 11 (3.2) | |
| Age, mean (SD) | 50.3 (6.9) | 50.1 (7.0) | 50.7 (6.8) | 50.5 (6.7) | 52.6 (6.7) | |
| Women, n (%) | 156 (45.2) | 99 (41.4) | 25 (53.2) | 29 (60.4) | 3 (27.3) | a, d<c |
| Body mass index, kg/m2†, mean (SD) | 22.8 (3.2) | 23.0 (3.4) | 21.9 (2.4) | 22.3 (2.6) | 25.5 (4.2) | b, c<d |
| Residence area, n (%) | ||||||
| Matsuyama city | 170 (49.3) | 98 (41.0) | 37 (78.7) | 26 (54.2) | 9 (81.8) | a<b,d b<c |
| Koto Ward | 175 (50.7) | 141 (59.0) | 10 (21.3) | 22 (45.8) | 2 (18.2) | |
| Education†, n (%) | ||||||
| High school or less | 109 (31.6) | 59 (24.8) | 23 (48.9) | 21 (43.8) | 6 (54.5) | a<b, c, d |
| Greater than high school | 235 (68.1) | 179 (75.2) | 24 (51.1) | 27 (56.3) | 5 (45.5) | |
| Marital status‡, n (%) | ||||||
| Single | 85 (24.6) | 60 (25.4) | 11 (23.4) | 12 (25.0) | 2 (18.2) | |
| Married | 257 (74.5) | 176 (74.6) | 36 (76.6) | 36 (75.0) | 9 (81.8) | |
| Occupation§, n (%) | ||||||
| Professional and engineering | 71 (20.6) | 39 (16.5) | 13 (28.3) | 18 (37.5) | 1 (10.0) | |
| Administrative and managerial | 59 (17.1) | 56 (23.6) | 0 (0) | 2 (4.2) | 1 (10.0) | |
| Clerical | 114 (33.0) | 111 (46.8) | 2 (4.3) | 1 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Sales | 17 (4.9) | 7 (3.0) | 4 (8.7) | 6 (12.5) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Service | 34 (9.9) | 9 (3.8) | 17 (37) | 8 (16.7) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Security | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Agricultural, forestry and fishery | 4 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.2) | 3 (6.3) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Transport and machine operation | 9 (2.6) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (8.3) | 4 (40.0) | |
| Manufacturing process | 14 (4.1) | 4 (1.7) | 5 (10.9) | 1 (2.1) | 4 (40.0) | |
| Others | 17 (4.9) | 10 (4.2) | 2 (4.3) | 5 (10.4) | 0 (0.0) | |
*Significant differences between four occupational activity types with one-way analysis of variance for continuous variables; Χ2 test for category variables.
†One missing in sitting group.
‡Three missing in sitting group.
§Two missing in sitting group, one missing in both standing group and physical labour group.
a= sitting; b=standing, c=walking; d=physical labour.